CloudHealth Technologies

CloudHealth Technologies – the American developer of a cloud platform which helps the companies to analyze use of cloud environments including to control expenses, security and performance within Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. By the end of August, 2018 CloudHealth has about 3 thousand clients among whom – Yelp, Dow Jones Zendesk, Skyscanner and SHI.

History

2018: VMware purchased CloudHealth Technologies

On August 27, 2018 the American producer of means of virtualization VMware announced acquisition of CloudHealth Technologies within the strategy for development of cloud business. The cost of the transaction which is going to be closed in the third quarter 2019 financial year does not reveal, but, according to sources of Reuters news agency, it is about the amount approximately of $500 million.

VMware purchased the developer of services for management of clouds

VMware is going to integrate CloudHealth technologies with the platforms Wavefront, Secure State and Cloud Automation to offer clients the complex service managing several clouds.

CloudHealth provides to our clients advantages regarding expenditure management, resource optimization, detailed understanding and report generation, – the operating officer on products and cloud services of VMware wrote in the blog to Raghu Raghuram.

According to the head of VMware Peta Gelsingera, everyone who unrolls cloud applicaions uses several public clouds. CloudHealth is just suitable for management of this difficult infrastructure, he added.

We are going to refresh our view of cloud computing, - Gelsinger told.

Reuters notes that purchase of CloudHealth corresponds to the course towards sales of the software selected by VMware on a subscription how more and more corporations transfer the computing resources and storage systems from own servers to public clouds.^[1]

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