Banzai deal follows Cisco's acquisition of cloud-native security startup Portshift. Credit: Cisco In its second cloud-native technology acquisition in as many months, Cisco is buying container security firm Banzai Cloud for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2017, Banzai is known for developing Kubernetes-based cloud application development and security technologies. It will become part of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group, where the company brews new projects for cloud-native networking, security and edge computing environments. “As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies on the network to provide application and API connectivity and a runtime platform for an ever-changing cloud topology,” wrote Liz Centoni, a senior vice president at Cisco, in a blog about the acquisition. “Addressing these challenges will drive developer agility and reduce friction so they can focus on writing code while spending less time managing the environments in which their applications run.” Growing its cloud security portfolio was the objective last month when Cisco grabbed Portshift, founded in 2018, for a reported $100M. “Today, the application security space is highly fragmented with many vendors addressing only part of the problem. The Portshift team is building capabilities that span a large portion of the lifecycle of the cloud-native application,” Centoni wrote last month. “They bring cloud native application security capabilities and expertise for containers and service meshes for Kubernetes environments to Cisco, which will allow us to move toward the delivery of security for all phases of the application development lifecycle.” Portshift, too, will become part of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group. Cisco has now made six acquisitions this year, including Fluidmesh for wireless backhaul, Modcam for video analytics, and ThousandEyes for Internet intelligence. Related content news Cisco adds AI features to AppDynamics On-Premises A new virtual appliance for Cisco's AppDynamics observability platform will give enterprise customers more deployment options as well as AI-driven capabilities for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP monitori By Michael Cooney May 10, 2024 4 mins Network Management Software Network Monitoring news CHIPS Act to fund $285 million for semiconductor digital twins Plans call for building an institute to develop digital twins for semiconductor manufacturing and share resources among chip developers. By Andy Patrizio May 10, 2024 3 mins CPUs and Processors Data Center news Microsoft’s AI ambitions fuel $3.3 billion bet on Wisconsin data center The Mount Pleasant site was initially earmarked for a manufacturing plant operated by electronics giant Foxconn. By Sascha Brodsky May 10, 2024 6 mins Data Center news analysis Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro New container image deployment method for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is aimed at helping enterprises streamline operations and management. By Maria Korolov May 09, 2024 5 mins Linux Networking PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe