Nicira created their own proprietary versions of the OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack networking projects.
[1] Nicira was co-founded in 2007 by Martin Casado, who served as the CTO, Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker.
On July 23, 2012, VMware announced they intended to acquire Nicira for $1.26 billion,[2] a deal which closed the following month.
Nicira technology was merged into VMware's vSwitch and marketed with the name NSX.
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