Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

VMware was a latecomer to software-defined networking, but its $1.2 billion acquisition of SDN startup Nicira, announced Monday, could help catapult it into the thick of this fast-emerging market.

The people who brought you Open vSwitch (OVS) are taking a shot at putting network abstractions on top of those virtual switches. The result would be the ability to connect groups of virtual machines ...