Cisco has acquired ContainerX, a start-up offering a console for managing Docker containers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
ContainerX, which is based in San Jose, California, promises “a single pane of glass for all your containers” where running on Bare Metal or VM, Linux or Windows, private or public cloud. The company describes its product as the world’s first multi-tenant container-as-a-service (CaaS) platform for both Linux and Windows. ContainerX also provides APIs for enterprises wanting to integrate the platform’s capabilities into their custom management portals.
The company was founded in 2015 by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, PhDs and engineers from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.
