Ovum comments on ServiceMesh acquisition by CSC

According to a recent update, CSC has announced that it has acquired ServiceMesh which is a Cloud management and brokerage company.

John Madden, Practice Leader, IT Services, Ovum, commented, CSC announced more than a year ago that it would reorganize and reinvest in strategic areas to spark additional growth, and the company has been true to its word. The vendor’s announced acquisition of ServiceMesh, a 140-person, privately funded cloud management and brokerage company, is CSC’s third deal in as many months – made possible by cost-cutting and shedding some business in order to build up resources and free cash. This deal augments CSC’s overall cloud initiatives, particularly in how it accelerates CSC’s own internal IP efforts around cloud orchestration and management.

ServiceMesh, with its Agility Platform, allows enterprise and public sector clients to identify which workloads should be deployed and managed in either private or public cloud models, and provides a single management and brokerage layer for hybrid cloud environments.

He further added that with this deal, CSC will now have capabilities to address two key elements that must be addressed as the cloud services market continues to grow. The key elements include the ability to size, deploy, scale and manage hybrid cloud environments as well as the need for enterprises to have proper cloud governance within their organizations.