In its first six months in business, startup Nicira has sold AT&T, eBay, Fidelity, NTT and Rackspace on its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP).
The NVP, which was publicly unveiled today, reportedly addresses the last mile of cloud computing — network virtualization.
In a press release issued today, Nicira chief exec Stephen Mullaney said the platform will bring enterprise private networking to the cloud.
“NVP is a software-based system that creates a distributed virtual network infrastructure in cloud data centers that is completely decoupled and independent from physical network hardware,” the press release explained.
Nicira NVP
Though it is a newcomer, Nicira was founded and funded by some industry heavyweights, including the Stanford scientist and company cofounder/CTO Martin Casado (to right) whose research led to the creation of OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking, and on the financing side, Mark Andreeson’s investment firm and VMWare co-founder and former chief Diane Greene.
Co-founder CTO Martin Casado
Users have said the platform allows them to repurpose networking infrastructure on demand and move applications dynamically, thus reducing service delivery and greater operational speed and flexibility.
NVP is available now and delivered through a usage-based, monthly subscription-pricing model, which scales per virtual network port, the company said. Pricing scales by use.
