VMware intend to acquire AVI networks- A multi-cloud Application Vendor

Vmware announces to acquire AVI networks. Many of you already knew about the AVI networks but still let me explain what AVI network provides. AVI Networks brings multi-cloud application services with elastic application delivery, security, and universal analytics across data centers and clouds. 

AVI Vantage makes it easy to apply load balancing, web application firewall and service mesh to any application. So, if you look the portfolio of AVI network, it’s good to expand the portfolio of Vmware by acquiring AVI networks.

The AVI platform automates application networking and security with closed-loop analytics, template-driven configuration and integration with management products. It delivers advanced analytics and insights for performance monitoring, the capability to install across on-premises and multiple cloud environments, as well as elasticity and on-demand scalability.

Fig 1.1- VMware and AVI Networks 

VMware and AVI network will build on common architectural foundation to create the industry’s only complete L2-L7 software-defined stack.

Statement by TOM Gillis -VMware

Combining AVI Networks with VMware NSX will further enable organizations to respond to new opportunities and threats, create new business models, and deliver services to all applications and data, wherever they are located.

Basics about AVI Networks Solution

AVI Vantage delivers multi-cloud application services including a Software Load Balancer, Intelligent Web Application Firewall (iWAF) and Elastic Service Mesh. The AVI Vantage Platform helps ensure a fast, scalable, and secure application experience.

Multi-cloud: Consistent experience across on-premises and cloud environments through central management and orchestration

Intelligence: Built-in analytics drive actionable insights that make autoscaling seamless, automation intelligent and decision making easy

Automation: 100% RESTful APIs enable self-service provisioning and integration into the CI/CD pipeline for application delivery

AVI SaaS

AVI SaaS complements AVI’s flagship product AVI Vantage Platform as the cloud-hosted option to deliver application services including distributed load balancing, web application firewall, global server load balancing (GSLB), network and application performance management across a multi-cloud environment. It helps ensure fast time-to-value, operational simplicity, and deployment flexibility in a highly secure manner.