{"id":2902,"date":"2012-07-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jul\/31\/for-vmware-and-nicira-software-trumps-hardware\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:00:00","slug":"for-vmware-and-nicira-software-trumps-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/for-vmware-and-nicira-software-trumps-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"For VMware and Nicira, software trumps hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By David Krozier, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 23 VMware, the server virtualisation powerhouse, agreed to acquire software-defined networking pioneer Nicira for $1.26bn; both parties expect the transaction to close in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, expects the acquisition to advance its progress towards programmatic control of virtualised compute, storage, and network resources &ndash; what it calls software-defined data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Although Nicira&rsquo;s current annual revenues are only in the $10m range, its technology complements VMware&rsquo;s cloud strategy and will allow the combined entity to attack data networks with a comprehensive software-based cloud solution that is completely hardware-agnostic.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition certainly complicates the relationship between EMC, VMware, and longtime ally Cisco in providing virtualised infrastructure for cloud data centres.<\/p>\n<p>While the companies have been long-term partners they also compete in the market, and Ovum expects the acquisition will end up polarising the EMC and Cisco camps &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Krozier, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure Practice<br \/>\nOn July 23 VMware, the server virtualisation powerhouse, agreed to acquire software-defined networking pioneer Nicira for $1.26bn; both parties expect the transaction to close in 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}