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This should have interesting fallout with EMC and Cisco's relationship. Cisco has invested heavily in creating a Nicira competitor internally (http://bits.blog
by 3am 14y ago
This should have interesting fallout with EMC and Cisco's relationship. Cisco has invested heavily in creating a Nicira competitor internally (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/cisco-announces-its-850-million-spin-in/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/cisco-announces-its...).
Also, Nicira was contributing a lot to Openstack networking, at least as of the Diablo release, in the Quantum plugin and I believe in nova-network in general. That will have repercussions for HP, Dell, Rackspace, or anyone else heavily invested in Openstack.
I had the pleasure of working on a small project in which Nicira was involved. I didn't work directly with them, but they seemed really sharp. Many congratulations to them on a great exit.
- wmf 14y agoI think VMware has made it fairly clear for a while that any part of the stack they touch will belong to them if they want it to. Even storage, which must make EMCers nervous. Several people predicted that Nicira is a feature and the VMware of networking will be VMware; those turned out to be true, although in a different way than predicted.
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- yskchu 14y agoWhy would it make EMC nervous? They own 80% of VMware :)
- wmf 14y agoThe thing about disrupting yourself is that you may end up with a larger share of a much smaller pie.
- tedunangst 14y agoAs wmf alludes, you should compare the pricing of vmware and emc for similar products. I haven't been paying attention for a few years, but back in the day emc would charge like a bajillion dollars for features they were putting into vmware esx for free.
- chris_wot 14y agoWhen EMC'ers get nervous, they get mean. I'd be more worried about them meddling in VMware's affairs. They've done this before when they shoved a whole bunch of software products onto VMware that they didn't want. Watch and see what happens. This "revolution" might fizzle pretty quickly if EMC gets involved.