Cisco Acquires Data Center SDN Startup Embrane

Cisco has made a strategic investment in the company last year, bringing in $ 14 million financing round series C. It expects the acquisition to close later this quarter. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Home Data Center Provides SDN Embrane platform for lifecycle management of network services focused on applications. Provides Layer 4-7 network services and helps overcome largest for SDN transition.

Embrane be integrated into the range of switches Nexus data center Cisco and expand infrastructure capacity Centric Cisco applications. ACI is the focus of data center Cisco SDN.

SDN helps network and parts fluid. ACI aims to make aware network application needs automatically. ACI application communicates high-level requirements for the hardware of the smart grid, which auto-configuration accordingly.

Activity as network virtualization, in particular, replacing physical functions virtualized devices, such as firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection, and WAN accelerators are larger network. Platform Heleos of Embrane distributes software-based devices as a firewall through a group of commodity servers.
"With the agility and automation as persistent for IT equipment engines, the need to simplify application deployment and build the cloud is essential for the data center," Hilton Romanski, director of corporate development at Cisco, wrote in a blog.

Embrane will join the Cisco business unit Together, which was the basis for the acquisition of 2012 together in the same data center Cisco SDN startup founded. Together was acquired as part of the effort to ACI, released in the same year, in response to a growing opportunity SDN Launched in 2014 and formally.

Technology Embrane will feel at home Cisco Given the two companies have long worked together. Embrane founders previously worked for Cisco. Following the financing, Embrane added lifecycle management for a wide range of Cisco and expanded support for other third-party systems.

"With the acquisition of ESTA, we continue our commitment to open standards through programmable API environments and multiple vendors," Romanski wrote. "More importantly, our commitment to the rich ecosystem of partners and customers in production through automation network services, systems management and cloud orchestration and automation batteries."