Cisco buys VCider to boost its distributed cloud vision
October 4, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
vCider’s virtual networking smarts will help Cisco build distributed cloud infrastructure that ties into its own Open Networking Environment. The move is seen as a counter to VMware’s acquisition of Nicira.
Cisco is buying vCider, a specialist in virtual network overlay technology (and a former GigaOM Structure LaunchPad finalist). The move is a response to VMware’s acquisition of Nicira and its software-defined networking technology in July which has strained the once close partnership between Cisco and VMware…
vCider’s technology works in much the same way as VXLAN, VMware’s attempt to get virtual machines to span dispersed data centers as part of the same local area network. Cisco can use vCider’s expertise to build a unified yet distributed Cisco-based cloud. The networking giant will also integrate technology vCider used in its multi-tenant distributed virtual network controller into its work on the OpenStack Quantum network subsystem, according to a Cisco blog post announcing the deal, terms of which were not disclosed…
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