BlueCat Networks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LiveAction, Inc., a provider of network observability and intelligence solutions, from software investor Insight Partners.
Insight Partners remains a minority investor and continues to support the combined company’s growth. Moelis & Company acted as financial advisors to LiveAction.
LiveAction provides a network observability and intelligence solution that is purpose-built for complex enterprises, leveraging advanced data collection at scale to provide full visibility through a single pane of glass across the entire network. The LiveAction solution is differentiated by its integrated flow and deep packet analysis, dynamic visualizations, precise troubleshooting, root cause analysis, rapid security forensics, and a superior set of integrations that enable both network and security teams to leverage network data across the observability stack. Ultimately, LiveAction enables large organizations to get ahead of network performance and security issues before they impact applications, customers and business services.
BlueCat’s DNS, DHCP and IPAM (“DDI”) solutions are the source of truth for what is on the network while automating and securing the provisioning, orchestration and configuration of foundational network services. Live Action’s fine-grain packet and flow telemetry become the ultimate source of truth for what is happening on the network–further empowering network and security teams alike.
“Adding LiveAction’s industry-leading network performance monitoring, packet capture and forensics offerings considerably strengthens BlueCat’s mission-critical DDI and network infrastructure management solutions,” said Stephen Devito, Chief Executive Officer at BlueCat. “Our acquisition of Indeni in 2023 (re-branded BlueCat Infrastructure Assurance) recognized that organizations need to be able to assure the health and performance of these core services as well as dependent load balancing and security devices. The acquisition of LiveAction goes a step further on this journey to provide deep insight into the network’s impact on business services, enabling organizations to isolate the source of response time issues, inform network policy and optimize network capacity.”
“This deal allows BlueCat to support customers at every step of their journey from network modernization to optimizing and securing networks across their enterprise,” said Tripp Ateyeh, Principal at Audax Private Equity, which invested in BlueCat in 2022.
“This acquisition allows BlueCat to enhance its capabilities by integrating both the breadth of LiveAction’s performance monitoring solution and the depth of its deep packet inspection functionality into the broader BlueCat portfolio,” said Philine Huizing, Principal at Insight Partners. “We look forward to seeing how this partnership will help enterprises thrive in an increasingly dynamic digital landscape.”
The transaction is expected to close in October, financial terms were not disclosed.
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