In a statement e-mailed to CRN, a spokesperson for Cisco said: "Cisco routinely reviews its business to determine where it needs to align investment based on growth opportunities. In assessing the ...

Cisco is also in the load balancing application acceleration business with its Application Control Engine (ACE), a blade that slides into its Catalyst 6500 switches and performs several functions ...

In a move first confirmed by CRN in September, Cisco will cease development of its Application Control Engine (ACE) load-balancer products, effectively leaving behind a major piece of its Layer 4-7 ...

Cisco’s retreat from the Layer 4-7 load balancer market should come as no surprise. It was getting pummeled by F5 and Citrix; and Cisco is increasingly virtualizing those and other ancillary ...

Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.… The networking giant quit load balancers in 2012 when it decided to stop ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Oppenheimer said in a note to investors last night that it learned F5 Networks (FFIV) initiated a special promotion offering customers two times the typical trade-in value for Cisco's (CSCO) ACE ...