Nicira
Acquired
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2007
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- nicira.com
- Total Funding
- $49.1M
- Last Round
- $25.9M Series CJan 2011
About
Nicira was a Palo Alto, California-based network virtualization company founded in 2007 as a spinout from research at UC Berkeley and Stanford. The company pioneered software-defined networking (SDN) with its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), decoupling network logic from physical hardware to create virtual networks in software. VMware acquired Nicira in July 2012 for approximately $1.26 billion — one of the largest acquisitions in VMware's history.
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