Subversion of the data center? Venture capital Nicira Tens of millions of investments

The enterprise's it construction is moving toward the more and simpler direction development, the emerging http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13422.html "> Cloud Computing Technology Service provider Nicira creation, Dedicated to changing the way services and storage are virtualized. There is no doubt that this is a much-watched start-up. According to Nicira, he received a joint investment of $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture and New Enterprise Associates. Meanwhile, individuals including VMware co-founder Diane Greene and Benchmark Capital, Andy Rachleff, also invested in Nicira.

Martin Casado,nicira co-founder CTO

Nicira's NVP (receptacle virtualization Platform) is a software-based system that creates virtual distributed network infrastructure in the cloud data center and is completely detached from and independent of hardware facilities. Nicira says NVP is a flexible and intelligent way to turn hardware into software, simplifying and virtualizing the process.

The NVP platform creates a layer of software with IP panels on the hardware network that enables the creation of virtual networks that are indistinguishable from physical networks for security, QoS policy, and usability.

According to Nicira, NVP can be deployed in a matter of minutes, not weeks or months, and there is no need to change any existing hardware or software infrastructure.

Nicira says that virtualized data centers face many challenges, which applications should be supported, what their workloads are, what constraints they have, and so on. These constraints will affect the mobility of computing power and affect the efficiency of the entire data center.

Nicira Ceo,stephen Mullaney points out that the network has not yet evolved into a fully cloud-based data center, and that the current solution remains flexible. "NVP the virtualization and creation of virtual networks from the physical network, software is winning the world," he said.

NVP is compatible with any data center network hardware and can be deployed on any existing network, even if future network hardware changes, without disrupting the virtual network platform to function properly. The software is based on the number of virtual network ports, paid monthly. Nicira has been digging up executives from Cisco, At&t, ebay and Fidelity Investments, and NTT and Rackspace have become the company's customers. (Compile/Bao)

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