Cisco has just written a cheque for the 18 month-old container management specialist ContainerX.
The outfit put its first product into the channel in June so it does not seem that Cisco is waiting for it to get established. ContainerX has switched off product downloads, webinars, and product support.
ContainerX’s technology is a turnkey container platform designed for enterprise IT to administer as easily as they’ve administered VMware vSphere or Microsoft HyperV over the years, with dev and ops self service. Enterprise IT can set up the platform in under 60 minutes, integrate with various enterprise infrastructure aspects including storage, network, orchestration, LDAP etc, create pools with resource limits, for various dev/ops teams to self service, the company wrote on its website.
Writing in his bog, Cisco’s Rob Salvagno said the technology that gives Cisco “enterprise-class container management” across various target platforms. The ContainerX team will join Cisco’s Cloud Platform and Services Group led by vice president Kip Compton.
According to ContainerX’s site, the software can manage bare metal, virtual machine, Windows and Linux systems on public or private clouds.
Salvagno said the technology will give Cisco the ability to develop its own “comprehensive cloud-native stack” for container users.
It is not clear how much the Cisco Kid paid for Container X.
