Cisco announced its intent to acquire CliQr Technologies Inc. for $260 million and is looking for the deal to close in the third quarter this year. The CliQr team would join Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit.

“Customers today have to manage a massive number of complex and different applications across many clouds,” Rob Salvagno, vice president, Cisco Corporate Development, says in a statement. “With CliQr, Cisco will be able to help our customers realize the promise of the cloud and easily manage the lifecycle of their applications on any hybrid cloud environment.”

CliQr provides an application-defined cloud orchestration platform to model, deploy and manage applications across bare metal, virtualized and container environments. According to Cisco, the acquisition will help its customers simplify and accelerate their private, public and hybrid cloud deployments. CliQr is already integrated with a number of Cisco’s data center switching and cloud solutions, including Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Unified Computing System (UCS).

Cisco also reports that CliQr offers customers “a single, intuitive platform that helps customers manage the entire application lifecycle across hybrid IT environments, whether simple or complex. CliQr’s CloudCenter platform provides a compelling solution for modern IT organizations whether they are moving their first applications to the cloud, deploying self-service IT environments, or wanting to gain visibility and control across a vast portfolio of clouds, applications and users.”