Tuesday, July 24, 2012

VMware to acquire Nicira for $1.26B

By Vasudev Ram


Nicira is into software-defined networking. It uses OpenFlow (Wikipedia).

Nicira management team

I had briefly blogged or tweeted about OpenFlow some time earlier.

The OpenFlow site

GigaOm article about the news:

VMware to buy Nicira for $1.26B in a strategic leap of faith

Earlier GigaOm article about Nicira:

Meet Nicira. Yes, people will call it the VMware of networking

Yahoo Finance news about it:

VMware to Acquire Nicira

Earlier Wired article about Nicira


- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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