Cisco To Acquire LineSider

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held LineSider Technologies, Inc., a provider of network management software that helps customers build the network services necessary to securely create and deploy cloud computing infrastructure. Based in Danvers, Mass., LineSider will enhance Cisco’s ability to rapidly provision network services.

“Cloud computing represents a significant opportunity for Cisco customers to create more effective business models and increase the operating efficiency of the network,” said Jesper Andersen, Senior Vice President, Network Management Technology Group (NMTG), Cisco. “With the acquisition of LineSider, Cisco will gain a key component to helping customers make this shift. LineSider’s advanced network management software integrates both physical and virtual network services with a policy-based approach and makes networks more flexible and responsive to change.”

LineSider’s software is designed to enable customers to organise their network resources into a flexible cloud infrastructure that integrates the network with customers’ existing IT operational tools and processes.

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Upon the close of the acquisition, the LineSider team will become part of Cisco’s NMTG. Financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed.