VMware is padding its vRealize Operations predictive analytics platform with the purchase of the True Visibility Suite business unit from Blue Medora. The acquisition mark's VMware's fourth so far this year and comes on the heels of last week's Datrium buy.

VMware claims the True Visibility Suite will bolster its vRealize Operations platform by providing granular visibility into customer's data center and hybrid-cloud environments. These capabilities will enable customers to automatically discover, map, and analyze their infrastructure, according to VMware. Details beyond that remain unclear.

Many of these capabilities are already available to VMware customers through an existing partnership with Blue Medora. "We have partnered with Blue Medora and the True Visibility Suite team for years," Taruna Gandhi, senior director of product and technical marketing at VMware, wrote in a blog post.

VMware reports approximately 400 customers are already using the combined service to manage and monitor their data centers.

The acquisition will help VMware expand the scope of vRealize Operations and realize it's "self-driving" management philosophy, according to Gandhi. That will include tighter integrations between the two products, however, VMware said it will continue to sell the True Visibility Suite as a standalone product.

VMware, last week, also gobbled up cloud-based disaster recovery platform Datrium.

As with True Visibility Suite, VMware didn't disclose the details of that acquisition, but the Sunnyvale, California-based startup has raised $112 million in funding since 2012. The similarities don't end there. While the two companies offer vastly different services, both are existing VMware partners.

Datrium offers disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) with VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This service provides incremental backups that are encrypted, deduplicated, and stored in AWS S3.

Last week's acquisitions come less than a month after VMware announced its intent to purchase Lastline, and in May, the company snapped up Kubernetes security startup Octarine.

The acquisitions should come as no surprise. Speaking at the Bank of America 2020 Global Technology Conference last month, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said the economic pressures brought on by the ongoing pandemic will drive a wave of mergers and acquisitions by larger players.