VMware today said it reached a deal to acquire Avi Networks, a software company that provides multicloud application delivery services, for an undisclosed amount.

The Santa Clara, California-based started, which was founded in 2012, has raised $115 million to date. Most recently it closed a $60 million Series D round in June 2018.

Avi’s platform includes a software load balancer, web application firewall (WAF), analytics and monitoring, and a universal service mesh. It has been deployed at “hundreds of global enterprises” including Fortune 500 financial services, media, and technology companies, the startup says.

VMware plans to integrate this technology with its NSX networking and security portfolio, and says when the acquisition closes it will offer both built-in load balancing capabilities as part of VMware NSX Data Center and a standalone application delivery controller (ADC). It expects the transaction to close by early August.

“We decided to merge these two companies and build a single, integrated solution that goes from Layer 2 to Layer 7 and fully delivers the agility that customers are looking for,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of networking and security at VMware, on a conference call.

Combining VMware and Avi’s networking and security capabilities will allow customers to deliver services to all applications and data, wherever they are located, he added.

“Our vision for VMware is to provide infrastructure that solves one problem and that is agility,” Gillis said. “At the end of the day we are looking for seed, flexibility, time to market. What does that mean? To deploy a workload with a single click. We want to provide a tool kit that allows a developer to be able to deploy a workload and at the same time allows IT to have a set of policies that can be deployed regardless.”

Avi’s central control plane and distributed data plane deliver application services as a dynamic, multicloud fabric that automates decisions and provides application analytics and on-demand elasticity. This means customers can dispatch services such as load balancing and WAF to any application using one centralized interface.

“Our customers use us across data centers, across public cloud environments, containers, VMs, bare metal,” said Avi Networks CEO Amit Pandey. “We are a disruptive force in the market and we’ve been a transformative force in where the customers are doing. It’s not just about replacing legacy hardware, it’s about enabling them to do things they can’t do today. Combining forces with VMware made a lot of sense to us.”