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February 18, 2012

A New Net

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by Tom Simonite, Technology Review

After four years of quiet hard work, Nicira has just launched that software as its first product. It should trigger a new wave of Internet innovation in everything from mobile apps to online banking security. The product is clunkily named Network Virtualization Platform. It’s aimed at the operators of data centers, the computer-stuffed warehouses that run Internet services and websites. But Nicira, which has received $50 million in funding and filed nearly 50 patents, is taking on a problem that limits what the Internet can offer all of us. The problem is this: cloud computing, even though it now might be a household term, hasn’t lived up to its hype—and as things now stand, it can’t. It was supposed to turn computing power into a cheap utility, like electricity after the advent of power stations and a national grid. A relatively small number of companies would offer computing resources by running software in vast, efficient data centers and piping the results over the Internet to anyone, anywhere. That would push down the price of services that rely on computing and allow them to become more sophisticated.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39631/?p1=featured

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