So, the news broke a little while ago that VMware has announced its intention to acquire SaltStack. But what is SaltStack and what do they do? Salt was an open source automation engine and originated from the need for high-speed data collection and task execution for data center systems administrators managing massive infrastructure scale and resulting complexity. Originally known […]
Yesterday (21st January 2020), saw an announcement from VMware and Nyansa (pronounced “knee-ans-sah”) sharing the intent of VMware to acquire Nyansa. Nyansa are a relatively young company creating innovative AI-based IT infrastructure analytics software. VMware appear to be looking to align this acquisition to their SD-WAN portfolio (Velocloud) to help drive the development of truly self-healing networks. It’s often interesting […]