Arista Networks to Seize Cybersecurity Opportunity With Acquisition of Awake Security

Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) will soon be entering into the cybersecurity market. This week, it announced its intention to acquire the network security specialist Aware Security. Here's what that means for the cloud network vendor.

Investors may be surprised by Arista's acquisition outside of its core networking business, but that move makes sense.

Over the last 10 years, Arista took advantage of the difficulties the legacy network vendors Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks have been facing to adapt to cloud computing. Its innovative cloud networking solutions offered the scale, flexibility, and performance cloud giants demanded to build their huge data centers.

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