By Stacey Higginbotham
Nicira, the not-so-stealthy-but-seriously-hot networking startup is ready to tell the world what it offers and who is buying its software. The list of customers is impressive. Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform is used at eBay, NTT, AT&T, Fidelity Investments and Rackspace, and I expect more companies to announce their use of the networking virtualization solution in the coming months.
Read MoreThe industry is awaiting the official debut of Nicira, a stealthy network virtualization start-up backed by Andreessen Horowitz, among other investors. Nicira is fresh off of landing a Cisco Fellow as its chief service provider architect, according to AllThingsD.
Read MoreBy Art Fewell
Martin Casado, inventor of OpenFlow and CTO of stealth startup Nicira, talks about the future of OpenFlow, networking and the job of the network engineer. 2011 has been an exciting year for Openflow and software defined networking (SDN). Continuing my informal series on Openflow, I recently got the chance to have a conversation with Nicira CTO Martin Casado to discuss the future of SDN generally and OpenFlow specifically.
By Arik Hesseldahl
I’m told Nicira has just made another key hire, again from Cisco Systems. Bruce Davie, a longtime Cisco employee, and indeed a Cisco Fellow, has joined Nicira as its Chief Service Provider Architect.
Davie is pretty well-known in networking circles, and is one of the co-inventors of MPLS, or multiprotocol label switching, which is a fundamental basis for high-end business class Internet service that many carriers deliver.
With $40 million in funding, an all-star bench of investors and engineers, and technology that has already drawn spies, Nicira is an unusually visible company in the supposedly secretive “stealth” stage of its early life.
Its biggest mystery may be what kind of challenge its “network virtualization” will do to the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Hewlett-Packard and other companies in the multibillion-dollar computer networking business.
Read MoreBy Arik Hesseldahl
Alan Cohen, Cisco’s vice president for Enterprise and Public Sector, has agreed to join Nicira as its vice president of marketing. Cohen has more than 20 years’ experience in tech marketing and product management.
By Stacey Higginbotham
Nicira, the not-so-stealthy startup working in the network virtualization space was “outed” Monday by the New York Times as a secret startup pursuing the next hot trend in computing.
By Arik Hesseldahl
Rob Enns, vice president of engineering at Juniper Networks, has joined Nicira Networks, a networking start-up in stealth mode that’s backed by an investment from Andreessen Horowitz, which invested $9 million in the company earlier this month.
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