Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports VMware ...

Is Cisco gear high-priced but worth the investment because of quality support and advanced features -- or just plain high-priced? Cisco Systems Inc. is the dominant LAN switch vendor, both in the ...

Continuing its push into the storage market, networking giant Cisco unveiled upgraded software for storage switches that promises to improve information sharing and prioritize data traffic. Cisco on ...

Cisco Systems is aggressively targeting small and midsize businesses with a set of Ethernet switching products designed to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of operating a network. On Monday, the ...

Cisco is stepping up its enterprise switch game to support the collaboration and multimedia it’s been pushing as the next generation of work. Cisco this week is unveiling enhancements to two of its ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...

Cisco this week issued a security advisory for a vulnerability in its NX-OS operating system, the software driving its Nexus data center switches. The vulnerability could leave the switches open to ...

Cisco 's networking equipment marketing efforts tend to play up the product's ability to move unbelievable quantities of data in record time: the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a ...