{"id":3953,"date":"2012-10-04T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2389978"},"modified":"2012-10-04T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:25:00","slug":"cisco-acquires-vcider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cisco-acquires-vcider\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Acquires vCider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has bought start-up vCider for its expertise in developing virtual network overlay technology for secure data center infrastructure. The price wasn\u2019t disclosed.<br \/>\nGigaOm rates it as a counter to VMware buying Nicira, which, it says, \u201chas strained the once close partnership between Cisco and VMware.\u201d It figures it\u2019ll be used \u201cto build a unified yet distributed Cisco-based cloud.\u201d<br \/>\nThe new prize will be integrated into Cisco\u2019s Cloud Computing organization, reporting to cloud CTO Lew Tucker, the vice-chairman of the new OpenStack Foundation.<br \/>\nIn a blog posting Cisco said it expects vCider to play an important part in its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, particularly in support of OpenStack, a key pillar of Cisco\u2019s open, multi-hypervisor, multi-stack cloud computing strategy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2389978\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has bought start-up vCider for its expertise in developing virtual network overlay technology for secure data center infrastructure. The price wasn\u2019t disclosed.<br \/>\nGigaOm rates it as a counter to VMware buying Nicira, which, it says, \u201chas strain&#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-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}