Brocade acquires SDN company Vyatta

BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking company Brocade announced that it will acquire privately held Vyatta in an all-cash transaction.

Vyatta is a Belmont, California based networking company that provides software-based network operating system. Brocade expects to close the acquisition by the end of the calendar year.

This OS enables system architects to connect virtual, cloud or physical infrastructures while delivering the same elasticity, mobility, auto-provisioning and utility licensing benefits of the applications they support, says a release.

"This acquisition complements our R&D investments in Ethernet fabrics and SDN, as well as our broad industry and solutions-level partnerships that enable Brocade to pursue new market opportunities in data center virtualization, public cloud, enterprise virtual private cloud, and managed services," said Mike Klayko, CEO of Brocade. "We are now bolstering these 'build and partner' efforts with this strategic acquisition with the goal of being the innovation and thought leader in the software networking category."

Vyatta is developing a next-generation network OS that delivers advanced routing, security and VPN functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments, adds the release.

Ken Cheng, vice president of the Routing, Application Delivery and Software Networking Group at Brocade. "The Vyatta acquisition brings in considerably more software networking technology and expertise to Brocade. We believe software networking to be a critical component in the next phase of network virtualization as enterprises are becoming increasingly virtualized and actively moving workloads to the cloud."

Following the close of the acquisition, Vyatta will be merged into Software Networking Business unit reporting into Ken Cheng.