September 1, 2011- Cisco announced expanded cloud-based initiatives in cooperation with VMware including virtual extensible local area networks (VXLAN).  According to Cisco’s press release, ”VXLAN will also support applications running in hybrid clouds where compute capacity is delivered from pools of resources that may span across private and public clouds, VXLAN will offer a network encapsulation technique with segment identifiers for creating millions of logical networks and for enabling workloads to seamlessly move across datacenters and cloud infrastructures.”