VMWare acquires PLUMGrid

Started by NetworkGroover, December 22, 2016, 11:28:17 AM

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December 22, 2016, 11:28:17 AM
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deanwebb

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December 22, 2016, 12:46:20 PM
This is interesting... does it mean VMWare wants to do more networking stuff?
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NetworkGroover

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December 22, 2016, 03:29:34 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on December 22, 2016, 12:46:20 PM
This is interesting... does it mean VMWare wants to do more networking stuff?

They already have been doing more networking stuff with NSX... but dunno what the acquisition of PLUMGrid holds...
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burnyd

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December 22, 2016, 09:04:09 PM
Its really strange because NSX is supposed to be their entire network stack from virtualization, bare metal and ML2/Openstack. 

icecream-guy

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December 23, 2016, 06:52:35 AM
Probably took a page from this Cisco playbook. Buy up the competition and shut 'em down.
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deanwebb

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December 23, 2016, 10:09:45 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on December 23, 2016, 06:52:35 AM
Probably took a page from this Cisco playbook. Buy up the competition and shut 'em down.

BINGO, I think...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

NetworkGroover

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December 23, 2016, 10:39:40 AM
Yeaaahhhhh I was wondering the same thing regarding buying them just to shut them down... I hope there is more to it than that though..
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