A small investment
Cisco made in software-defined networking startup Embrane could lead to a
new set of solutions for the vendor's SDN portfolio.
Last year, Cisco invested $14 million into Embrane, but now the
networking giant is looking to acquire Embrane to beef up its SDN
solutions portfolio.
If the acquisition goes
through (and there's a very good chance of that happening), Embrane will
join the Cisco Insieme business unit.
That makes sense, as several Embrane executives are former Cisco
engineers.
It's like coming home again.
The end goal, though, appears
to be fusing Embrane with the existing Insieme offerings and making them
part of Cisco's overall SDN strategy.
Embrane Helios, the company's platform, deploys software-based
appliances across commodity servers with the intention of providing
enterprises with greater flexibility.
It's a good extension for
cloud services providers, but it's also a potentially good tool for
Cisco's enterprise customers, particularly those already interested in
the Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure model and the rest of
Cisco's existing SDN portfolio.
Embrane bills itself as a lifecycle management platform for ACI services.
It seems like that fits right in with Cisco's overall product portfolio.
Specifically, it should be interesting to see how Embrane's technology fits into Cisco's SDN portfolio.
Hilton Romanski, Cisco's
senior vice president and head of business development, wrote in a blog
post that Embrane will also add to the vendor's virtualization and
automation solutions.
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