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Pica8 AmpCon Automation Is The Open Networking Alternative To Cisco DNA Center

Pica8 AmpCon Automation Is The Open Networking Alternative To Cisco DNA Center

Pica8, an open networking software company, today announced that its AmpCon™ Network Controller provides a better alternative to Cisco DNA Center and competing solutions from switch hardware vendors such as Arista and Juniper. Enterprise customers who are tired of complex licensing, vendor lock-in and sales quotas are turning to Pica8’s AmpCon Network Controller to automate...

Pica8 and Edgecore Provide Open Networking Relief for Hardware Shortages

Pica8 and Edgecore Provide Open Networking Relief for Hardware Shortages

Pica8, an open networking software company, and Edgecore Networks, an open network vendor, today announced an alternative solution to legacy network equipment delays. Enterprise customers are being saddled with record length lead times for new equipment due to the industry-wide silicon shortage. While many are altering their plans or modifying their equipment strategies, Pica8 and...

Pica8 Joins STORDIS’ #Back2Open Program for Stranded Cumulus Linux Users

STORDIS – The Open Networking Expert – is pleased to announce that Pica8 has joined STORDIS' #Back2Open Program. STORDIS initiated the #Back2Open Program to support Cumulus Linux users impacted by the fall out between Broadcom and Cumulus Linux, that followed the acquisition of Cumulus Linux by NVIDIA (more information can be found here). #Back2Open is...

Pica8 Appoints Kelly LeBlanc Chief Marketing Officer and Mike Hoffman Chief Revenue Officer

Pica8 Appoints Kelly LeBlanc Chief Marketing Officer and Mike Hoffman Chief Revenue Officer

Pica8, an open networking software company, today announced the appointments of Kelly LeBlanc as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Mike Hoffman as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Kelly and Mike both join Pica8's executive leadership team, reporting directly to Founder and CEO James Liao. The announcement follows news of Pica8's recent close of Series C funding...

Pica8 Announces Record Investment Round, Names New Board Members

Pica8 Announces Record Investment Round, Names New Board Members

Pica8, the original open networking software provider, now setting its sights on meeting F500 enterprise customer demands for software defined networking (SDN) solutions not offered by legacy vendors such as Cisco, announced today that it has raised over $20 million in Series C funding. WI Harper Group and Aspiro Capital Management led the round, with...

Pica8 Survey Shows Broad Engagement with IT Automation, with Data Center and Cloud Automation Leading the Way

A new Pica8 survey of 200 North American senior IT managers studies engagement with automation of a variety of IT domains, including the data center, cloud, remote offices and mobility. The survey finds automation to be one of the most important IT initiatives, ahead of AI-Ops, Edge computing and RPA. In fact, 88 percent said...

Pica8 Launches Threshold™, Achieving Five Industry Firsts to Deliver the Only End-to-End Open Networking Replacement Architecture for Legacy Campus Networks

Pica8, the leading provider of automated open networking software for enterprise campus and access networks, today announced Threshold™, the industry's first-ever white box- and brite box-based replacement architecture capable of displacing an entire legacy enterprise network infrastructure. Running on open switching hardware, such as Dell EMC's family of open access and campus switches, Threshold includes...

City of Hoover, Alabama, Simplifies Network Management and Increases Bandwidth with Pica8 PICOS® NOS

Pica8, the leading provider of automated open networking software for enterprise campus and access networks, today announced that the City of Hoover, Alabama, has opted to replace their legacy data networking switching infrastructure with an open networking solution from Pica8 run by the company's Linux-based network operating system, PICOS®. In deploying the Pica8 PICOS NOS,...