Seeking to expand both its range of products and platforms, Syncsort Inc. has acquired Metron Technology, Ltd., a Taunton, U.K.-based provider of capacity management software that specializes in forecasting, modeling and planning complex systems, for an undisclosed amount.

Capacity planning has become a more complex and analytics-driven discipline with the addition of new variables like virtual machines, big data clusters and containers. Metron’s roots in big-data analysis dovetail nicely with Syncsort’s  strategy of helping organizations to integrate legacy mainframe data with modern big-data platforms, said Syncsort Chief Executive Josh Rogers (pictured).

“We’ve done a lot of work in performance optimization, and capacity management is core to that,” Rogers said. “This is an analytics solution that does a great job of providing analytics across multiple platforms as well as generating trending models.”

Of particular interest to Syncsort is Metron’s ability to ability to collect data from multiple platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud, into a single logical database called Athene for short-, medium-, and long-range forecasting and change management. Athene can also import data from a variety of infrastructure modeling tools from providers that include CA Technologies Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and IBM Corp.

Syncsort also liked Metron’s experience working with multiple platforms, including the IBM i and AIX Power Systems, Rogers said. “We saw multiple levels of strategic synergy,” he said. Metron also advised on the original capacity management process definition and guidelines contained within the Information Technology Infrastructure Library framework, a model that information technology organizations are increasingly adopting for service management.

“We’re seeing demand to manage not so much a specific system or server, but across the services that IT system providing,” Rogers said. “Customers want to create a unified view to figure out bottlenecks, and they need to be able to pull in metrics across the compute platform and cloud.”

The acquisition is the fourth since Rogers took over as Syncsort CEO and the first since the company itself was acquired by private equity firm Centerbridge Partners L.P. in a deal that also included Vision Solutions Inc., a maker of business resilience software. Other recent acquisitions include Trillium Software Inc., a maker of data quality tools, and Cogito Ltd., a firm that improves the performance of mainframe databases.

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