Pliant products will help customers simplify the automation of network and IT infrastructure operations, IBM says. Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Looking to bolster its network and IT infrastructure capabilities, IBM said today it has acquired IT automation vendor Pliant for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2017, Pliant is known for its IT automation and orchestration software that works to streamline communications among platforms, services and applications and simplify network and IT operations. Pliant offers a library of out-of-the-box integrations with third-party vendors and can work with technologies that have an API or command line interface (CLI). IBM has partnered with Pliant in the past, integrating its workflow engine and other technologies in its Cloud Pak for Automation package. The idea behind that integration is to advance service delivery speed and ensure the network maintains the customer’s desired state, IBM stated. Pliant’s technology will let customers simplify automation with a tool that securely integrates services and applications within their network and infrastructure environments, according to Andrew Coward, IBM’s general manager of software defined networking, who wrote a blog about the acquisition. “Pliant adds essential capabilities to automate network and IT infrastructure tasks and abstract these functions to the application layer, enabling applications (and developers) maximum control for simplified provisioning and management of infrastructure directly within applications themselves,” Coward wrote. “These optimizations include infrastructure resource provisioning and management, traffic management and configuration management for both traditional network and IT infrastructure and public clouds.” The acquisition will extend IBM’s software portfolio, which today includes SevOne, Cloud Pak for Network Automation, Hybrid Cloud Mesh, Edge Application Manager and IBM NS1 Connect. IBM last month rolled out a new NS1 Connect service that uses DNS to help enterprise customers more effectively load balance highly distributed application and multicloud workloads. The IBM NS1 Connect Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) service ties together the company’s NS1 DNS technology with real-time user data in a package that promises to bring faster connectivity along with improved failover and resiliency. Related content how-to Compressing files using the zip command on Linux The zip command lets you compress files to preserve them or back them up, and you can require a password to extract the contents of a zip file. By Sandra Henry-Stocker May 13, 2024 4 mins Linux news High-bandwidth memory nearly sold out until 2026 While it might be tempting to blame Nvidia for the shortage of HBM, it’s not alone in driving high-performance computing and demand for the memory HPC requires. By Andy Patrizio May 13, 2024 3 mins CPUs and Processors High-Performance Computing Data Center opinion NSA, FBI warn of email spoofing threat Email spoofing is acknowledged by experts as a very credible threat. By Sandra Henry-Stocker May 13, 2024 3 mins Linux how-to Download our SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide From the editors of Network World, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps network and security IT staff understand what Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge) SSE can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solut By Neal Weinberg May 13, 2024 1 min SASE Remote Access Security Network Security PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe