HPE to Acquire Plexxi for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Muscle
Summary
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will acquire Plexxi to beef up HPEs software-defined networking technology for hybrid cloud infrastructure, the companies said Tuesday. Founded in 2010, Plexxi provides a "software-defined data fabric" -- translation: software-defined networking -- according to a post on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise blog. HPE will integrate Plexxi technology into its hyperconverged solutions, building on HPEs $650 million SimpliVity acquisition last year. Founded in 2010, Plexxi raised $83.4 million in five funding rounds, the latest in January 2016, according to CrunchBase. For example, Nutanix Inc. expanded from its foundation as a hyperconverged infrastructure provider to SDN and cloud application management tools this month.