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Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
May 16, 2012By Stacey Higginbotham
It’s unclear if a small, niche player that offers the benefits having actual servers located on the Channel Islands can create a business that can compete with Amazon’s infrastructure as a service or the myriad private clouds people want to build, but the experiment is worth watching. Calligo, founded by Julian Box, the former CTO of Virtusteam has leased servers at data centers on the Jersey and Guernsey Islands to provide a cloud option for companies that need to keep their data offshore.
OpenStack Networking Moving Ahead
May 10, 2012By Colleen Miller
The developing cloud world is sometimes like the oft-repeated phrase in a popular commercial: “I’m not only the president, but I’m also a client.”
IT infrastructure provider Internap (INAP) has been an early adopter of OpenStack, releasing a public cloud product running on the OpenStack OS as early as October 2011. As well as being a user of OpenStack, the Internap team is also contributing members of the OpenStack development community.
Read More What Is a Virtual Network? It’s Not What You Think It Is
May 9, 2012By Cade Metz
Steve Herrod envisions a world where we build entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn’t unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade, VMware has helped the world’s businesses move their computing applications onto virtual servers, machines that exist only as software, and now, Herrod and company are working to expand the world of virtual computing, so that applications run atop not only virtual servers but completely virtual networks.
On Wednesday morning, on stage at a tradeshow in Las Vegas, Herrod will herald the age of the “software-defined data center.” It’s a play off another term that’s been much-hyped across Silicon Valley in recent months: “software-defined networking,” or SDN. It’s an unfortunate term, for many reasons. But behind the name — and the hype — there’s very real technology that will let us build networks using nothing but software, and VMware is just one of many companies pushing this technology forward, including Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, and — most notably — a swashbuckling startup called Nicira.
Read MoreData Center Networking in the Era of Overlays
May 7, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfUYdDJpEiU
Open Networking Summit 2012
Data Center Networking in the Era of Overlays
Martin Casado, Nicira
Read More Nicira wants to reinvent routing
May 1, 2012By Richard Nieva
Inspired by a government gig, founder Martin Casado is trying to make it a lot easier for computers around the world to communicate.
Silicon Valley is full of tight-lipped executives who fear divulging their companies' technological secrets. Then there's Martin Casado, co-founder of networking startup Nicira, who won't even disclose where he used to work.
Read MoreNetwork Virtualization Poised for Primetime?
April 27, 2012By Paul Rubens
Network virtualization technologies have been buzzing around the periphery of people's consciousness for quite some time without ever quite making it into the mainstream of their thinking.
That's odd, because there's little doubt that network virtualization will be just as fundamental to the way that data centers operate as server virtualization has become over the last two or three years. But signs are starting to emerge that network virtualization is a technology whose time is about to arrive.
Read More No hardware? Startup aims to revolutionize Internet
April 25, 2012By Ian Vandaelle
California's Nicira wants to create switch to software-based networking
U.S. startup Nicira is aiming to create software to replace the existing hardware that routes information on the Internet, a move that could revolutionalize the way digital information is accessed, according to Wired.
Networking Start-Up Nicira Hires New VP of Sales From Riverbed
April 23, 2012By Arik Hesseldahl
Nicira, the once secretive networking technology start-up that aims to mess up the business of giants like Cisco Systems, has just made another key executive hire. Denis Murphy, the senior vice president for the Americas at Riverbed Technology, has joined Nicira as VP of Sales.
Cisco gives Nicira threats credence
April 20, 2012By Patrick Hoge
Technology startups frequently say their products will revolutionize industries and shake up dominant incumbent companies.
Nicira Networks Inc., a Palo Alto-firm that in February emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding, appears to have done just that with Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) by developing software that strikes at the heart of Cisco’s core business.
And now...to virtualize the network
April 20, 2012Y ahora… a virtualizar la red
Esta historia, como tantas en esta industria, empezó en Stanford, y tiene un llamativo parentesco con la trayectoria inicial de Vmware. El origen de Nicira Networks, la empresa de la que trata este post, se remonta a un proyecto de doctorado. Entre los inversores que han financiado con 50 millones de dólares su puesta en marcha, se encuentra Diane Greene, la fundadora de Vmware, y no es caprichoso imaginar que dentro de unos años pueda ser objeto de una transacción financiera de resonancia, como la que en su día tuvo la compra de VMware por EMC. Una hipótesis intrigante, ¿no es cierto? Pues bien, el autor de este blog visitó el mes pasado la sede de Nicira, en Palo Alto.
Read MoreDreamHost selects Nicira for software-defined network deployment
April 19, 2012By Gina Narcisi
Growing from a four-person start-up to a cloud provider with more than 300,000 customers and hosting 1.2 million domains requires significant technological transformations. DreamHost, a Brea, Calif.,-based cloud provider has always relied on a traditional, hardware-centric networking model but its growth is forcing a shift to a software-defined network.
Next-Gen Network Drumbeats: Going With the OpenFlow
April 18, 2012By Mike Barton
The next generation of computer networking is coming. The drum is beating this week with some big moves that could change the way networks work, and, in effect, change the internet itself. So what’s this drum circle all about?