Intel Corporation
INTC
has announced a deal to acquire Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd for an undisclosed amount.
Based in Israel, Granulate develops real-time optimization software. The acquisition will help cloud and data center customers enhance compute workload performance and reduce infrastructure and cloud costs.
Intel invests in growth opportunities enabled by software, including artificial intelligence and security platforms and services. It aims to build a portfolio of software optimization tools with scalable capabilities to meet the burgeoning demand in the compute era.
Granulate’s approach to real-time optimization software complements Intel’s capabilities by helping customers achieve greater performance. Intel is committed to helping its customers ensure that they are right-sizing their compute clusters and cloud deployments.
Granulate’s autonomous optimization service enables cloud and data center customers to improve the performance of their deployments and reduce operational overhead and application costs.
As part of Intel, Granulate will be able to deliver autonomous optimization capabilities to more customers globally and rapidly expand its offering with the help of INTC’s software engineers.
Over the past year, Intel and Granulate have worked together under a commercial agreement to collaborate on workload optimization on Xeon deployments. Intel plans to rapidly scale Granulate’s optimization software, including across its data center portfolio.
The deal is expected to be closed in the second quarter of 2022.
Intel is benefiting from the growing demand in the Data Center Group, with strong server recovery in enterprise and government.
The stock has lost 23.2% in the past year against the
industry
’s growth of 33%.
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