Aerohive Acquires Pareto Networks

According to Aerohive CEO David Flynn, the acquisition significantly expands Aerohive’s corporate mission beyond its current focus on wireless networks. Flynn says Aerohive will combine its own wireless network management framework that is delivered via the cloud with the Pareto service to deliver a combined service beginning in the second quarter.

In the immediate future, Flynn says the service will be focused on giving IT organizations a set of tools for remotely managing wireless networks and combined virtual private networks/routers in branch offices.

The goal, says Flynn, is to give IT organizations a common framework for managing networks via the cloud that does not require IT organizations to invest in different tools for all the networking gear deployed in various branch offices. Flynn says that means that in order to scale those networks, IT organizations just have to add additional equipment versus having to factor in additional operating expenses associated with managing that equipment.

Flynn added that Aerohive and Pareto Networks share a common philosophy concerning the distribution of management functions that places an emphasis on distributed intelligence across the network versus trying to centralize all management functions around a controller in the cloud.