Cisco acquires Virtuata to secure virtual-machine data

Cisco has acquired Virtuata, a privately held developer of technology for securing virtual-machine data in multi-tenant data centres, the company said Monday.

Virtuata helps to isolate each virtual machine from others in the same virtualised data centre or cloud environment, Cisco said. It can help to address the security concerns of enterprises or service providers that want to host multiple customers, departments or applications in a single infrastructure. Cisco said the acquisition complements its mission to help customers create unified data centres — via redwolf.newsvine.com