Pradeep Sindhu, Chief Technical Officer/Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Juniper Networks Inc, speaks at Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit 2016. (Photo : Getty images/Hindustan Times)
AppFormix, a cloud operations management and optimization startup, has been acquired by Juniper Networks which is a publicly traded networking company. AppFormix was incorporated in 2013 by Sumeet Singh, who worked earlier with Microsoft and Cisco. At Microsoft, Singh started the Windows Azure Networking team.
AppFormix collaborates with any OpenStack or Kubernetes distribution and assists operators receive real-time insights into the state and health of own clouds and further permits to consider an action based on the information.
Essentially, it also includes some predictive features that prohibit issues in the first place. Additionally, the service also adds some automated orchestration tools that help operators keep away the kind of resource contention that most commonly slow down the workloads.
All of this is built on top of big data analytics and machine learning platform - that's exactly what Juniper is most after.
Tech crunch reported that Juniper plans to join AppFormix's telemetry and operations management smarts with its Contrail product line.
"When paired with Juniper's Contrail product line, AppFormix improves cloud orchestration, security, accounting, and planning," Juniper says.
"We believe that Juniper customers will benefit from a smarter, automatic, and agile operational experience at lower total costs."
Reuters reported that the AppFormix acquisition is the second buy Juniper made in the past few months. In August, Juniper stated that it would buy fabless photonics manufacturer Aurrion for an unrevealed price.
It is stated that AppFormix will continue to retain its stand-alone brand and will further have its own platform under its current name. Present users do not notice any immediate changes.
Similarly, Juniper's CTO Pradeep Sindhu debates that own company's customers are in search of a "self-driving infrastructure" and that the acquisition of AppFormix will enable Juniper to step up the roadmap to get there.
While Juniper did not indicate the acquisition price, it is quite noteworthy that AppFormix has raised a total of $7 million.
"We expect that Aurrion's breakthrough technology will result in fundamental and permanent improvements in cost per bit-per-second, power per bit-per-second, bandwidth density, and flexibility of networking systems," Juniper says in a blog announcing acquisition.
August Capital led the company's Series A round.
