Article Written by David Marshall
VMware announced a new acquisition of a relatively unknown company, Arkin Net, a provider of software-defined data center security and operations. Although financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, VMware did say that they expect the transaction to close by the end of June 2016. The deal is expected to help enhance VMware's ability to build and manage virtual networks tied to hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines.
Arkin is an established business partner of VMware, and it was founded in 2013 to bring management enhancements to virtual networks. This year, Arkin was named by Gartner as one of its "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking."