In Red Hat’s first deal since it was bought by IBM for $34 billion three years ago, Red Hat announced it’s buying container security startup StackRox. Financial terms of the deal, which is slated to close in the current first quarter after it passes closing conditions, weren’t disclosed.
The deal for StackRox marked yet another chapter in IBM’s goal of shifting to a hybrid-cloud strategy by blending StackRox with Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform.
