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How Virtualization Is Changing Networking-October 24, 2016 |
On the second day of the Linley Processor conference, the keynote was by Bruce Davie. He did his PhD in computer science at University of Edinburgh (yeah, so did I) and worked for many years for Cisco before joining a company called Nicira, which got acquired by VMWare. He focuses on network virtualization (often called network function virtualization or NFV). His goal is to do for networking what VMWare have already done for servers, as he explained in his keynote.