Wal-Mart Buys OneOps

@Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring.
It’s supposed to have re-imagined application management in the era of cloud computing and comes with a Platform-as-a-Service capability that should accelerate Wal-Mart’s PaaS and private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) strategies.
Wal-Mart will doubtless get cloud applications out of it. It said, “We are innovating on a very large scale, and OneOps brings us tools that will allow us to move even faster toward a global platform.”

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