VMware Announces Intent to Aquire Avi Networks

The Virtual Cloud Network is VMware’s vision for the future of networking, one based on a software-defined distributed network architecture that spans all infrastructure and ties all these pieces together with the automation and programmability found in the public cloud. A Virtual Cloud Network enables organizations to respond to new opportunities and threats, create new business models, and deliver services to all applications and data, wherever they are located. At the heart of our VCN vision is a networking and security portfolio that has evolved over the last half decade. Through organic innovation and strategic acquisitions, we have built what is arguably the industry’s most successful software-defined networking portfolio. Nicira, Arkin, PLUMgrid and Bracket Computing, have all helped shape and advance our direction in data center networking. The acquisition of VeloCloud enabled us to extend our networking footprint into enterprise branches for SD-WAN…and enter it as a leader from day .