Global cloud infrastructure company VMware has acquired Wavefront, a metrics monitoring service for cloud and modern application environments.
The acquisition of Wavefront will enable VMware to reach new digital enterprise customers and end-users including application delivery and development teams seeking to glean greater insight into their modern applications and associated containers and microservices.
VMware does not expect this transaction to have a material impact on its FY18 operating results. VMware did not reveal the financial details of the acquisition.
The US-based Wavefront provides metrics monitoring to optimize clouds and modern applications by delivering operational insights using millions of data points per second in real-time. Operators and developers can interrogate real-time data streams to address problems, identify bottlenecks, and test algorithms and hypotheses.
Wavefront, a cloud hosted service, ingests, stores, visualizes, and alerts on streaming metric data from clouds and modern applications enabling superior operational performance. The service can measure, correlate, and analyze across servers, devices, applications, end-user behavior, multiple public cloud and data center attributes, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments, and business metrics.
“When combined with the vRealize product portfolio, digital enterprises will gain a complete view from network through infrastructure to applications,” said Ajay Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware.
Pete Cittadini is the president and CEO of Wavefront.
Wavefront’s metrics monitoring for modern applications will complement VMware’s vRealize Operations platform for monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning across virtual environments.
Wavefront will be a part of VMware Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. VMware will leverage Wavefront’s technology to accelerate the development of VMware Cross-Cloud Services to help manage and monitor modern application and their associated infrastructure across clouds.
On April 4, 2017, VMware announced its decision to sell its vCloud Air business to European cloud services provider OVH. With the deal, VMware will offload its vCloud Air U.S. and European data centers as well as its customer operations and success teams to OVH, which will operate the new service as vCloud Air Powered by OVH.
