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VMware Buys Nicira: The $1.26 Billion Bet That Made Software-Defined Networking Strategic

VMware paid roughly $1.26 billion for Nicira to extend virtualization from servers into networks. The acquisition became the foundation of NSX and made software-defined networking a central part of the software-defined data center.

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