Re:VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
by sturadnidge on Monday July 23, 2012 @05:31PM
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It's certainly not advanced - in a nutshell, they are moving the networking stack away from proprietary hardware and towards x86, although that of course does not preclude proprietary features from popping up in other places. This (http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/6/4/openflowsdn-is-not-...) is probably the best "layperson" (and I use that term _very_ loosely in this forum) explanation of the problem space.
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Re:VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
by ExxonValdeez on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:02PM
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If its not that advanced, why aren't you selling your company to VMware today? Clearly this problem is extremely difficult and having met some of the Nicira team, I'd say this problem could not have been tackled by most software engineers. There are some wicked distributed systems problems among other things.
Re:VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
by sturadnidge on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:30PM
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You clearly don't comprehend the context in which that statement was made. Specifically, "It's certainly possible that the problem-space is too advanced to really tell it in layman's terms". Conceptually it's not advanced at all, in fact it's not even new. Nowhere do I allude to the implementation as trivial, which it clearly is not.
some papers by Nicira's CTO: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=martin+casado&...