CA Technologies acquires Layer 7

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/ca-acquires-layer-7-technologies-to-connect-cloud-mobile-and-internet-of-things-as-api-market-starts-to-consolidate/

CA Technologies announced this morning that it has acquired API management company Layer 7. It is the second major acquisition of an API management company in the past week, signaling a consolidation of a market that larger companies see as vital for closing the gap between on-premise and online infrastructure and apps.

Last week, Intel acquired Mashery for $180 million. The acquisition price for Layer 7 was not disclosed but the Mashery price serves as  a good guide for what CA was ready to pay. CA also announced it is buying Nolio, a company that provides  continuous application delivery.

In a press release,  CA said its solution combined with Layer 7 will help organizations to better manage and secure APIs and better deliver applications in the cloud across mobile and web environments.

It’s interesting to see these kind of announcements, increasingly we’ve seen companies making the right acquisitions to position their products and businesses for a cloud or managed service platform. This creates both opportunities for start-ups entering these new businesses as well as traditional businesses to select vehicles for organizational transformation and revenue generation.

I’ve worked with various CA products over the years in the scheduling, monitoring and backup space, anything they can do to improve their product offering and prepare the code for next generation solutions is an exciting offering, how cool would it be to be able to have a monitoring infrastructure that resides in the cloud which can scale on demand in line with your application infrastructure rather than reactively deploy additional NSM nodes for example.

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