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Title: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: NetworkGroover on December 22, 2016, 11:28:17 AM
If you didn't know... and/or care:
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-acquires-employees-assets-plumgrid/2016/12/
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: deanwebb on December 22, 2016, 12:46:20 PM
This is interesting... does it mean VMWare wants to do more networking stuff?
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: NetworkGroover on 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...
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: burnyd on 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. 
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: icecream-guy on December 23, 2016, 06:52:35 AM
Probably took a page from this Cisco playbook. Buy up the competition and shut 'em down.
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: deanwebb on 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...
Title: Re: VMWare acquires PLUMGrid
Post by: NetworkGroover on 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..