NetApp on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Fylamynt, a developer of CloudOps automation technology that it says enables businesses to securely build, operate, manage, and analyze cloud workloads with little or no code.
Fylamynt is set to be part of NetApp’s Spot portfolio of products with a single shared code base for a wide range of cloud-native services, said Anthony Lye, executive vice president and general manager for public services at cloud in San Jose, Calif. -based company.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
NetApp’s acquisition of Spot in June 2020, which develops technology to manage and optimize computing instances in public clouds, marked NetApp’s move to become a provider of a wide range of public services to cloud separate from the company’s traditional focus on storage.
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Since then, NetApp has expanded Spot’s portfolio to include its Ocean Kubernetes DevOps technology; its CloudJumper acquisition, which gave it the ability to better manage the virtual desktop infrastructure and is now known as Spot PC; its CloudHawk security technology, now known as Spot Security; and its acquisition of Data Mechanics for optimizing Apache Spark analytics, now known as Ocean for Apache Spark.
Fylamynt, which will likely be known as Spot Connect in the near future, has rounded out the Spot platform by tying all other products on the platform to each other and to non-NetApp technologies, Lye said in CRN.
“Customers always ask me two questions,” he said. “How do we integrate Spot with other tools? How do we extend our own code using Spot? Our answer is, ‘Here and API. Go ahead and do it.’ So over the past 12 months, I’ve been looking at how we as a platform for DevOps can tell customers that we can help them integrate Spot into other tools and expand the platform. “
Fylamynt is the answer, Lye says.
“We love Fylamynt because it’s a refreshing approach,” he says. “This is a low-code or no-code solution. It connects to a wide range of assets. And we don’t want to buy the big business we have to dismantle. We want something we can incorporate quickly. “
Fylamynt based in Mountain View, Calif. as part of NetApp’s Spot portfolio will be an integral part of NetApp’s move to become a leading CloudOps provider for companies looking to become more cloud-native, Lye says.
“The step to use CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment) is still early, but it will come,” he said. “Every company is a software company now. Companies and departments will be slow to use CI/CD. We want to be a platform for CloudOps. We want to be a service for SREs (site reliability engineers). as the infrastructure becomes more complex. ”
At Fylamynt, developers and customers will find improved integration of all Spot services, Lye said. For example, he said, all Spot tools can now be easily integrated into Spot Security.
“But it’s not exclusive to Spot,” he said. “The tools will also be integrated with other non -NetApp tools, for example, when connecting to DataDog [cloud monitoring service] in PagerDuty [SaaS incident response platform]. Although such data may not go through Spot, we want Spot to make it easier. “
Fylamynt’s acquisition of NetApp is a smart move, said John Woodall, vice president of engineering and NetApp enablement at General Datatech, a Dallas -based solution provider and longtime NetApp channel partner.
“Anthony is spending money wisely,” Woodall told CRN. “I like this.”
Fylamynt and its focus on CloudOps automation will be important for things like integrating security and ransomware protection into the clouds, Woodall said.
“Ransomware can now generate security threats that go into ServiceNow’s workflow management,” he said. “With Fylamynt, the company gets an immediate response without human intervention. Fylamynt uses existing automation tools, and adds many complementary features around performance and cost management. On a scale, people doesn’t keep up with what’s going on. “
Acquisitions like Fylamynt show that NetApp is changing how businesses approach the cloud, Woodall says.
“If you look at NetApp at first, the big question in its approach to M&A is, will there be the acquired product later,” he said. “With Fylamynt, Spot, and five to six others, we see them all fitting into a strategy to deliver the next incremental part of the puzzle. It’s not about storage. Yes, storage is important. It’s a foundation. of building, and it’s not easy to do. But as people continue to build public and private clouds and on -premises infrastructure, automation is important. “
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