Cisco has acquired vCider, a company with expertise in the development of virtual network overlay technology for secure data center infrastructure, according to the head of Cisco’s corporate business development.
Cisco VP Hilton Romanski said that California-based, privately held vCider will be integrated into the company’s cloud computing organization.
Romanski said that with Quantum becoming a core OpenStack service, it’s clear that programmable networking is quickly becoming an important component in large-scale, multi-tenant, cloud computing environments.
The Quantum plug-in is designed to give application developers increased programmability of both virtual and physical networks linking the world of cloud computing to the advanced capabilities of ONE.
Regarding vCider’s role in all this, Romanski said the vCider team has created a multi-tenant distributed virtual network controller. “vCider’s code and technology will be integrated into our current development efforts of the OpenStack Quantum network service,” he said.
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