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His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare .

Silicon Valley is full of tight-lipped executives who fear divulging their companies' technological secrets.

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Nicira Networks Inc., a Palo Alto-firm that in February emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding, appears to have done just that with Cisco Systems Inc.

As part of its new-age system for moving traffic between its massive data centers, Google is using a network controller built in tandem with swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira , according to a Google presentation posted to the web.