{"id":2798,"date":"2012-07-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2318288"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:30:00","slug":"vmwares-buying-nicira-for-1-26-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/vmwares-buying-nicira-for-1-26-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware\u2019s Buying Nicira for $1.26 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has cut a deal to acquire privately held Nicira Inc and its cloudy open source network virtualization widgetry for $1.05 billion in cash plus roughly $210 million in unvested equity awards. So that makes a tidy $1.26 altogether.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s VMware\u2019s biggest acquisition ever and should close this half.<br \/>\nPaul Maritz, now VMware\u2019s lame duck CEO and going out with a bang, said in a statement that \u201cVMware has led the server virtualization revolution, and we have the opportunity to do the same in data center and cloud networking. The acquisition of Nicira adds to our portfolio of networking assets and positions VMware to be the industry leader in software-defined networking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2318288\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has cut a deal to acquire privately held Nicira Inc and its cloudy open source network virtualization widgetry for $1.05 billion in cash plus roughly $210 million in unvested equity awards. So that makes a tidy $1.26 altogether.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s VMware\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}