Quoting from the The Register:
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This week we’ll be taking a look at the talented workers at two of our favorite start-ups – Nuova Systems and Montalvo Systems.
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Well, of special note, we’ve found VMware’s founder and former CTO Ed Bugnion – not pronounced ‘bunion’ – at Nuova as the start-up’s VP of engineering. Bugnion used to be a graduate student of fellow VMware founder and Stanford professor Mendel Rosenblum.Nuova has managed to keep the nature of its products pretty quiet, although Bugnion’s presence helps confirm some of the rumors we’ve heard. Our sources claim Nuova is working on a virtualization system that would combine server, storage and networking technology in a single box. The system is meant to align with Cisco and Intel’s larger strategy around Data Center Ethernet (DCE).
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Broadly, DCE is a proposal to add more virtualization to networks and make it possible for myriad types of traffic to share Ethernet networks. It’s not hard to image a company such as Cisco seeing Nuova and DCE as a means of encroaching on the turf of Sun, IBM, HP and Dell. But Cisco would prefer you don’t think about that just yet.Who else is at Nuova? Well, there’s Fabio Ingrao, the project lead for server start-up Fabric7. And there’s Dan Lenoski, the former VP of engineering at Cisco. You’ll also find a bunch of former Juniper, Netillion and Sun Microsystems executives. Quite the talented bunch…
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