Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

VMware said Monday that it will buy Nicira in a deal valued at $1.05 billion in cash. Nicira specializes in open source software for network virtualization. VMware will also assume $210 million in ...

Developers of Open vSwitch, the open source networking component for hypervisors, are adding network virtualization capabilities to the code. According to this post in Network Heresy, the developers ...

VMware was a latecomer to software-defined networking, but its $1.2 billion acquisition of SDN startup Nicira, announced Monday, could help catapult it into the thick of this fast-emerging market.

As described on the Apache web site, “Open vSwitch Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for ...

Only the much larger VMWare also enjoys this type of distribution benefit -- and while the scarcity of vSwitches is a problem (3 or 6 via vSwitches controlled by VMWare & Nicira) -- the bigger ...

Designed for use with HP FlexFabric 5900AF switch, HP Virtual Switch 5900v provides powerful SDN alternative to anemic VMware vSwitch Network architectures and SDNs are becoming increasingly crucial ...

The latest version of Ionix Server Manager delivers complete virtualization visibility by adding discovery and monitoring of the VMware® vSwitch. This new capability allows EMC to uniquely integrate ...