IBM Acquires Pliant to Further Enhance Network IT Automation Capabilities

Today, IBM is announcing that it has acquired Pliant, a leading provider of network and IT infrastructure automation products. Pliant adds essential capabilities to automate network and IT...Today, IBM is announcing that it has acquired Pliant, a leading provider of network and IT infrastructure automation products. These optimizations include infrastructure resource provisioning and management, traffic management and configuration management for both traditional network & IT infrastructure and public clouds. The acquisition will extend the current Software portfolio - SevOne, Cloud Pak for Network Automation (CP4NA), Hybrid Cloud Mesh (HCM), IBM NS1 Connect and Edge Application Manager - to provide enterprises with products that enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control, and automation across hybrid cloud environments. Since Arvind Krishna became CEO in April 2020, IBM has acquired more than 40 companies to bolster its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.