Brocade announced its intent to acquire Riverbed Technology's SteelApp product line in an all-cash asset transaction.
SteelApp is a virtual ADC providing scalable, secure, and elastic delivery of enterprise, cloud, and e-commerce applications. The SteelApp product line controls traffic to and from applications and enables fast, reliable, and secure application delivery to users anywhere from the cloud or data center.
Under the terms of the agreement, Brocade will acquire the assets of the SteelApp business unit, and SteelApp development and field personnel will join Brocade after closing. The addition of the SteelApp product line extends Brocade's software portfolio and enables more advanced solutions for the company's data center and service provider customers.
"The decision to divest the SteelApp product line reflects Riverbed's ongoing commitment to focus on businesses and opportunities that leverage our core competencies," said Jerry M. Kennelly, Chairman and CEO of Riverbed Technology. "Riverbed is focused on providing solutions that provide CIOs unparalleled visibility, optimization, and control in the hybrid enterprise, ensuring on-premises, cloud and SaaS applications perform as needed."
"Brocade continues to execute aggressively to capitalize on the disruptive force of software in IP networking," said Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade. "Brocade is the #2 data center networking vendor worldwide and this acquisition strengthens Brocade's unique position as the adoption of software-centric networking is accelerating. We are thrilled to add SteelApp's widely-adopted solution to our portfolio and will invest our existing ADC resources to aggressively advance the roadmap and extend it into our open Vyatta Platform offering for NFV and SDN."
The SteelApp product line will be added to Brocade's growing portfolio of software networking products including virtual routing, firewall, VPN, SDN controller, and network visibility and analytics. Combined with its portfolio of world-class network hardware products, these disruptive additions strengthen Brocade's portfolio for data center deployments, spanning Enterprise, Cloud and Telco customers.
The acquisition of SteelApp is another component of Brocade's investment strategy, complementing the acquisition of Vyatta (virtual routing and firewall) and Vistapointe (virtual network visibility and analytics). Combined with investments in early stage disruptive SDN and NFV technology companies, this acquisition emphasizes Brocade's commitment in open and emerging New IP technologies.
Upon completion of the acquisition, the assets of the SteelApp business unit will become part of Brocade's Software Business Unit, led by Kelly Herrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed, and it is expected to close in Brocade's second quarter of fiscal 2015, subject to customary closing conditions and regulations.
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