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Note: Cisco extends its embrace of software defined networking with the purchase of vCider, a maker of network overlay technology.
Cisco announced on Thursday that it is acquiring vCider, a privately-held, Mountain View, CA-based start up whose network overlay technology helps corporate datacenters reach into the cloud. The move represents another step in the networking giant's software defined networking (SDN) agenda, while also furthering complicating its evolving relationship with VMware.
In a blog post announcing the purchase, Hilton Romanski, a Cisco vp and its head of corporate business development, said vCider's technology will factor into Cisco's Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, which aims to do more than merely separate the control plane from the data plane - a popular definition of what SDN achieves - by developing network programmability options to meet the varied needs of different enterprises and institutions. He wrote that vCider's multi-tenant distributed virtual network controller will be integrated into Cisco's Quantum plug-in for OpenStack,...