“A startup called Nicira is reinventing computer networking with an audacious goal: to make all kinds of Internet services smarter, faster, and cheaper.”
Confronted with the task to solve a problem a U.S. intelligence agency needed to solve, Martin Casado attempted a solution but the result didn’t meet the agency’s security requirements.
Fast forward a few years and Casado, a PhD candidate at Stanford University, “proposed a radical new way for computer networks to operate.”
Due to the infrastructure of the internet, Casado was previously unable to provide a solution.
However, the essence of his current solution and the core of his PhD thesis is that by writing software he could reprogram routers and switches to provide a set of connections to securely route data through.
Eventually, Casado founded Nicira. Essentially, this software creates a virtual network that’s indistinguishable from a physical one. And it gives clound administrators Matrix-like powers.
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