Cisco plans 125 million dollars to buy cloud computing maker Cloupia

Beijing Time November 15 news, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Cisco announced today that it plans to buy Cloupia, a privately owned software company in Santa Clara, California, at a price of 125 million dollars, the latter can automate the aggregation of data center infrastructures, reducing the complexity of the work of enterprise and service providers, allowing them to deploy and configure all physical and virtual resources from a single management console.

As cloud computing drives the technology industry to migrate to the aggregation infrastructure, computing, storage, networking, and virtualization are increasingly needed to simplify management systems, which is also an important reason for Cisco's decision to buy Cloupia.

Cloupia's infrastructure management software enhances Cisco's Unified Computing Systems (UCS) and Nexus Switch products, and automates the management of computing, networking, storage, virtual machines, and operating system resources with one-stop monitoring function.

Cisco plans to combine Cloupia's infrastructure management software with its leading Datacenter management solution, allowing businesses and service providers to seamlessly manage computing resources, network services, storage, and virtual machines to deploy and deliver various IT services at lower cost and faster speeds.

David yen, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Data Center's Davien, said: "Cisco's data center strategy is built on the premise of making it easier for customers to deploy a unified and integrated infrastructure with greater efficiency, speed, and flexibility, including providing the industry's most comprehensive data center networking products, Includes physical products and virtual products that support various management programs and storage media. The addition of Cloupia's automated management software will improve the efficiency of this unified datacenter infrastructure and help accelerate migration from the physical environment cloud environment. ”

Acquisitions, acquisitions and investments are key components of Cisco's innovative framework and strategic support. The acquisition of Cloupia is in line with Cisco's overall strategic goal of developing innovative data centers, virtualization and cloud technologies, while fostering quality talent.

Cisco expects the deal to be completed in the company's second quarter of fiscal year 2013. The deal also needs to meet other conditions.

After the deal is completed, Cloupia employees will join Cisco's Data center group.

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