Summary
Apcera is an American cloud infrastructure company that provides a container management platform[1] to deploy, orchestrate and govern containers and applications across on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology Software |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Derek Collison |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Derek Collison (CEO) |
Number of employees | 120 (2016) |
| Website | apcera.com |
Company Overview edit
Apcera was founded in 2012 in San Francisco by Derek Collison, previously a technology leader at Google, TIBCO and VMware (where he designed the first open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Cloud Foundry).
Apcera’s primary offering, the Apcera Cloud Platform, provides IT governance and security through a policy driven model, allowing for the safe deployment and management of cloud-native applications, microservices, legacy applications, as well as IT resources, network and services access, and user permissions.
According to Forbes [Tech], the Apcera Cloud Platform enables clients "to manage the migration from legacy infrastructure to newer approaches and... allows them to achieve significantly faster time-to-market for … critical deployments, without sacrificing crucial security requirements”[2]
In September 2014, Ericsson acquired a majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance.[3]
Software edit
The Apcera Cloud Platform is available in two forms: a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Community Edition is free and can be used for deployment to a single infrastructure. The Enterprise Edition has the functionality to deploy workloads to multiple infrastructures. The Apcera Cloud Platform allows the user to create a set of rules to control available resources at a container level. In addition, it allows a user to connect to back-end services outside of the platform while maintaining governance. It allows users to build a workload once and then move it around in its container without re-writing the code — it only needs the connections made between containers.
Apcera also develops and provides support for several open source software projects, including NATS, a cloud-native enterprise messaging system, Kurma, a container runtime with extensibility and flexibility, and Libretto, a Golang virtual machine provisioning library for public and private clouds.
Major Clients edit
Some of Apcera’s customers include nextSource, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Cygate, Rodan Fields
Company Timeline edit
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 4, 2012 | Derek Collison writes the original code of the Apcera Platform |
| June 18, 2012 | Meeting at True Ventures (Official Anniversary of Apcera) |
| July 13, 2013 | Series A funding closes |
| May 14, 2014 | First orchestrator deployed. Began switching clusters to orchestrator |
| July 31, 2014 | Nats.io launch |
| September 30, 2014 | Majority stake acquired by Ericsson |
| April 8, 2015 | Jeff Thomas joins as Chief Marketing Officer[4] |
| June 23, 2015 | Join the open container initiative[5][6] |
| December 17, 2015 | Apcera Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation[7][8] |
| March 24, 2016 | Apcera‘s Community Edition launched |
| April 4, 2016 | Mark Thiele joins as Chief Strategy Officer[9] |
References edit
- ^ "451 Research Recognizes Apcera as a Leader in Emerging Category of Enterprise Container Management and Microservices". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Kepes, Ben. "Post The Ericsson Deal, Apcera Rolls Out A Hybrid Cloud Offering". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Ericsson acquires majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Jeff Thomas Joins Apcera as Chief Marketing Officer". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Ghoshal, Abhimanyu (2015-06-23). "Amazon, CoreOS, Docker, Google, Microsoft and others team up to create an open container standard". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Wolpe, Toby. "Open Container Project: How cloud giants are joining forces against lock-in and fragmentation | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces New Members, Begins Accepting Technical Contributions | The Linux Foundation". www.linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Why Apcera, Container Solutions, Deis, RX-M LLC and Univa Corporation Joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation | Cloud Native Computing Foundation". cncf.io. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Data Center Guru Mark Thiele Makes a Switch, Joins Cloud Startup | Data Center Knowledge". 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2016-10-04.