Apcera is an American cloud infrastructure company that provides a container management platform 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),
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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 t
Forbes ech 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”
In September 2014, Ericsson acquired a majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance.
Software
The Apcera Cloud Platform is available in two forms:
Community Editionand 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
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Major Clients
Some of Apcera’s customers include nextSource,
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Company Timeline
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, March 4, 2012
, Derek Collison writes the original code of the Apcera Platform
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, June 18, 2012
, Meeting at True Ventures (Official Anniversary of Apcera)
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, July 13, 2013
, Series A funding closes
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, May 14, 2014
, First orchestrator deployed. Began switching clusters to orchestrator
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, July 31, 2014
, Nats.io launch
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, September 30, 2014
, Majority stake acquired by Ericsson
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, April 8, 2015
, Jeff Thomas joins as Chief Marketing Officer
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, June 23, 2015
, Join the open container initiative
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, December 17, 2015
, Apcera Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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, March 24, 2016
, Apcera‘s Community Edition launched
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, April 4, 2016
, Mark Thiele joins as Chief Strategy Officer
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References
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