VMware announces the acquisition of Nyansa, an innovator in AI-based network analytics and developer of the Voyance cloud-based AIOps platform. The financial details of the deal are not available.
As VMware puts it, the purchase will enable the delivery of end-to-end network visibility, monitoring and remediation within VMware SD-WAN. It will also proactively predict client problems, optimise application and network performance, and better assure the behaviour of critical IoT devices. The addition of Nyansa AI/ML capabilities to the VMware network and security portfolio should also make it easier for customers to operate and troubleshoot the Virtual Cloud Networks, and further enable Self-Healing Networks.
“The acquisition of Nyansa will accelerate VMware’s delivery of end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for LAN/WAN deployments within our industry-leading SD-WAN solution,” VMware adds. “Nyansa is a proven solution that solves many of the shortcomings of today’s vendor-specific solutions. Nyansa currently analyses user network traffic from more than 20 million client devices across thousands of customer sites at companies including Tesla, Uber, Lululemon, Rooms To Go, GE Healthcare, SF International Airport, Stanford, Northeast Georgia Healthcare System and many others.”
The current Nyansa product offering is Voyance, a vendor-agnostic, cloud-based AIOps platform. The solution consolidates key functionality within network monitoring tools into a single multifunction analytics platform. The consolidation of network infrastructure monitoring simplifies the planning, deployment and management of the evolving enterprise edge, and can reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise network management. Through Voyance, organisations can automate the end-to-end analysis and correlation of critical infrastructure data to improve the productivity, performance and security of critical devices on both wired and wireless networks.
The transaction is expected to close on fiscal Q1 2021, and should not impact fiscal 2021 results.