News Releases

Nicira Virtualizes the Network for Offshore Cloud Specialist Calligo

May 16, 2012

Palo Alto, Calif., May 16, 2012 – Nicira, the network virtualization company, today announced that Calligo, a full-service cloud service provider based in the Channel Islands, has adopted Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to support its customers in the offshore industries in the region. Calligo is using NVP to make two data centers – one in Jersey and one in Guernsey – operate as a single facility, with computing capabilities and applications utilizing the virtual and physical capabilities in either location.

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Nicira Leads OpenStack Quantum Into Production with Rackspace

April 16, 2012

Palo Alto, Calif., April 16, 2012 – Today at the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference in San Francisco, Nicira announced that another one of its customers, Rackspace, a leader in cloud, is driving a production OpenStack network environment leveraging its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). Industry leader Rackspace is using OpenStack “Quantum” and Nicira NVP to automate network services independent of data center network hardware, significantly increasing operational simplicity and reducing costs of managing their large-scale, multi-tenant clouds as the large cloud provider addresses the enterprise market.

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Nicira Virtualizes the Network for DreamHost

April 9, 2012

Palo Alto, Calif., April 9, 2012 – Nicira, the network virtualization company, today announced that Southern California-based cloud provider DreamHost will deploy its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). DreamHost joins global leaders NTT, Rackspace and others in using Nicira’s software to reduce costs and accelerate service delivery in its OpenStack™ data center environment.

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Nicira Virtualizes the Network for AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace

February 6, 2012

Nicira, the network virtualization company, today publicly unveiled its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is a software-based system that creates a distributed virtual network infrastructure in cloud data centers that is completely decoupled and independent from physical network hardware. With Nicira NVP, global market leaders such as AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace are already realizing service delivery acceleration from weeks to minutes and dramatic cost reductions in data centers of tens of millions of dollars.

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