Company:Apcera
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| Type | Private |
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| 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 |
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.
Company Overview
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
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
Some of Apcera’s customers include nextSource, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Cygate, Rodan Fields
Company Timeline
| 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
- ↑ "451 Research Recognizes Apcera as a Leader in Emerging Category of Enterprise Container Management and Microservices". http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/451-research-recognizes-apcera-as-leader-emerging-category-enterprise-container-management-2162965.htm.
- ↑ Kepes, Ben. "Post The Ericsson Deal, Apcera Rolls Out A Hybrid Cloud Offering". https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/02/23/post-the-ericsson-deal-apcera-rolls-out-a-hybrid-cloud-offering/#4eb8aaa16c9e.
- ↑ "Ericsson acquires majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance". http://www.pcworld.com/article/2686932/ericsson-acquires-majority-stake-in-apcera-for-cloud-policy-compliance.html.
- ↑ "Jeff Thomas Joins Apcera as Chief Marketing Officer". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-thomas-joins-apcera-chief-185041370.html.
- ↑ Ghoshal, Abhimanyu (2015-06-23). "Amazon, CoreOS, Docker, Google, Microsoft and others team up to create an open container standard" (in en-US). https://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/06/23/amazon-coreos-docker-google-microsoft-and-others-team-up-to-create-an-open-container-standard/.
- ↑ Wolpe, Toby. "Open Container Project: How cloud giants are joining forces against lock-in and fragmentation | ZDNet". http://www.zdnet.com/article/open-container-project-how-cloud-giants-are-joining-forces-against-lock-in-and-fragmentation/.
- ↑ "Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces New Members, Begins Accepting Technical Contributions | The Linux Foundation". http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-new-members-begins.
- ↑ "Why Apcera, Container Solutions, Deis, RX-M LLC and Univa Corporation Joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation | Cloud Native Computing Foundation". https://cncf.io/news/blogs/2016/05/why-apcera-container-solutions-deis-rx-m-llc-and-univa-corporation-joined-cloud.
- ↑ "Data Center Guru Mark Thiele Makes a Switch, Joins Cloud Startup | Data Center Knowledge" (in en-US). 2016-04-20. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/04/20/data-center-guru-mark-thiele-makes-a-switch-joins-cloud-startup/.
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