HPE, the parent company of Aruba on Tuesday announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak, a leader in the fast-growing SD-WAN market, for $925M.
Silver Peak will become part of Aruba to deliver a comprehensive secure networking portfolio to address customer requirements across Campus, Branch, Data Center and Remote Worker environments.
Keerti Melkote, President, Intelligent Edge for HPE and Founder of Aruba Networks, said in a blog post that, "With more than 1,500 production SD-WAN customers globally, Silver Peak helps enterprises and service providers quickly migrate to secure enterprise-grade SD-WAN connectivity, while dramatically improving application performance and lowering connectivity costs. With the addition of Silver Peak to the Aruba portfolio, customers will be able to achieve dedicated WAN-like performance while running all cloud applications and services via broadband."
