VMware NSX mashes up Nicira and homegrown network virt
Having let go of its aspirations to be a player higher up in the systems stack – now that application frameworks, caching software, and other elements of the business have been shuffled off to the new Pivotal group established by parent EMC – VMware is doubling down in the virtualization business, and its top brass were banging the software-defined data center (SDDC) drum pretty loudly down at its analyst meeting on Wall Street this morning. They also talked a bit about what VMware is going to do with network virtualizer Nicira, which it bought last summer for a whopping $1.26bn.