VMware Acquires Seattle-Based Cloud Security Startup CloudCoreo

VMware, a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, announced the acquisition of CloudCoreo. While the company has not divulged financial details about the acquisition of the cloud security company, it said it will provide the CloudCoreo security platform as an individual service.

The start-up platform monitors the entire cloud infrastructure stack, which includes hosts, application settings and cloud services, and identifies the risks or misconfigurations at the time of deployment. VMware says that this allows DevOps and security teams to resolve any problems before violations and violations of the compliance policy occur.

In an official blog post, Milin Desai, general manager of cloud services at VMware, said: "As part of VMware, CloudCoreo will allow us to expand our support model of consistent operations in any cloud. the best cloud for the needs of each individual application, while optimizing security and compliance, and we will offer customers the best option to develop any type of application your business needs and implement in any cloud, without increasing complexity or risk to the company. "

The news of the acquisition of CloudCoreo by VMware, which adds another aspect of the cloud's management capacity to the latter's portfolio, follows the launch of its SaaS product range. The company also presented its first AppDefense, the pure gaming security product, which scans and monitors applications running in local data centers and in the cloud in search of anomalous behavior in August of last year. The company also announced new security software based on the cloud, developed in conjunction with Carbon Black, which automates the detection and repair of threats in December 2017.

CloudCoreo, founded in July 2016, will complement VMware's cloud services portfolio to enable customers to secure their conventional and modern applications in a multi-cloud environment. However, it is not yet clear if the 10-employee CloudCoreo team will move to the Bellevue office of VMware or one of the other six offices in Colorado, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia and Texas.