Cisco is spending $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives to buy Cloupia, a three-year-old start-up that automates cloud-building.
It lets enterprises and service providers deploy and configure physical and virtual resources from a single management console.
Cloupia’s infrastructure management software is supposed to enhance Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) and Nexus switching portfolio with a single pane-of-glass view into the automation of compute, network, storage, virtual machine and operating system resources.