L.N. Revathy, Coimbatore, January 27, 2009
The Hindu Business Line
Riverbed Technology, which is into providing WAN (Wide Area Network) optimisation solution for organisations worldwide, has acquired Mazu Networks, a privately owned company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to expand and optimise its product offerings.
Sharing this development with Business Line, Sidney Rabsatt, Product Manager, Riverbed, said the acquisition cost of Mazu Networks was around $25 million in cash. Riverbed is hoping to close this deal before the end of this quarter.
The acquisition, he said, would hasten the integration of the systems more tightly.
Riverbed has been associated with Mazu for the last three years, he said.
Asked if the company got the best deal, he said ‘the acquisition was driven based on market need for a robust solution rather than the economy. We have helped companies do more with less. This integration, in our view, will provide better value proposition to our customers.”
“Enterprises are today looking to reduce cost via consolidation, improve performance and user productivity by leveraging on technology and streamlining processes. The market for WAN optimisation is, therefore, becoming a mainstream activity with customers demanding more visibility, reporting and analytics capability from us,” he said.
Stating that there is no metrics at present to measure application performance management, he said: ‘The combined offering would help simplify the way application performance is measured,” and cited how users struggle to understand the performance metrics when their e-mail or search response turns slow.
“The system should be intelligent enough to measure this. Three key capabilities such as global optimisation, global visibility (to understand performance characteristics) and global control are required.”
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