Embrane (acquired by Cisco)

Embrane was acquired by Cisco in April 2015. Embrane is the leading provider of application-centric network services, including firewalls, VPNs, load balancers and SSL offload engines. The company’s solutions enable customers to create centrally managed network services on a per-application basis in seconds. The result is greater security and faster time to deployment for applications. Additionally, customers achieve over 50 percent savings in CAPEX and OPEX compared to integrated hardware-based systems and traditional virtual appliance offerings. Embrane’s solutions are purpose-built for enterprise and service provider data centers where agility and automation are priorities, including private/hybrid/public cloud environments.pay for what they need, and service providers to pay for what they sell, providing a more profitable revenue model.