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Nicira is a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization. Nicira created their own proprietary versions of the OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack networking projects.[1]
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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.[3]
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