VMware explains how its acquisition of networking startup Nyansa plays into its big new push into cybersecurity
Summary
VMware is adding another company to its shopping list as it announced last week that it would acquire the network analytics startup Nyansa. Nyansa builds technology that provides analytics to help companies see whats going on in their network and monitor for suspicious activity. Uppal says that its another piece of VMwares big push into cybersecurity, where it believes that it can unify all the various different ways that the IT department needs to protect its infrastructure from harm under one banner. Most recently, it closed acquisitions of Carbon Black and Pivotal for a total of $4.8 billion, which analysts see as a move to attract more developers and firmly establish itself as a force to be reckoned with in cybersecurity. "While all of these changes happen, our underlying strategy stays the same: to provide the best software infrastructure to run their business on any cloud, any device, any application," Uppal said.
