CloudBolt is a hybrid cloud management platform developed by CloudBolt Software for deploying and managing

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(VMs), applications, and other IT resources, both in public clouds (e.g., AWS, MS Azure, GCP) and in private data centers (e.g., VMware,

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History

The platform was developed by Alexandre Augusto "Auggy" da Rocha and Bernard Sanders. da Rocha began work on a prototype of the platform in 2010, calling it SmartCloud 1.0. Together they created a generalized solution, which was released in August 2011 as SmartCloud 2.0. The early version focused on simple installs and upgrades of

, and building an extensible product that customers could use as a platform for integrating with other technologies. In 2012, they renamed their company to CloudBolt Software (to avoid a name conflict with an IBM offering), and in 2013 CloudBolt Command and Control (C2) was included as the cloud manager in

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Cloud for US Government. In 2014, the product name "CloudBolt Command and Control (C2)" was simplified to "CloudBolt". Product Timeline: * 2011 - 2.0 released, with support only for VMware & HP Server Automation (formerly Opsware) * 2012 - 3.0 released, rebranded as CloudBolt with support for AWS &

added * 2013 - 4.0 released, support for

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Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, Computer data storage, data storage, Data analysis, data analytics, and machine learnin ...

, Infoblox, vCO (now vRO), and HP Operations Orchestration, Cobbler * 2014 - 4.5 released, including integration with Puppet & Chef,

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* 2015 - 5.0 released with support for

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container orchestrator and Razor bare metal provisioning * 2016 - 6.0 released, with support for Azure ARM,

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, Oracle Public Cloud * 2017 - 7.0 released, with 18 total public clouds and private virtualization systems supported, 4 configuration managers, and 2 external orchestrators * 2018 - 8.0 released, with everything-as-a-service (XaaS), enhanced containerization and Kubernetes support * 2019 - 9.0 released, with support for infrastructure-as-code ( Terraform), expanded self-service workload delivery, security, and multi-cloud management

Funding

In July 2018, CloudBolt raised $23M in Series A funding from Insight Venture Partners. In November 2020, the company received a further $15 million in equity investment from Insight Venture and $20 million in

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from Hercules Capital and Bridge Bank, for a total raised to date of $61M.

Acquisitions

In June 2020, CloutBolt announced the acquisition of

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based SovLabs, which extends VMware automation capabilities; terms were not announced. In August 2020, the company announced the acquisition of Melbourne, Australia based Kumolus, a cloud management solution provider; terms were not announced. In April 2025, CloudBolt announced the acquisition of Arlington, Virginia based StormForge, a cost- and resource-optimization platform for

environments; terms were not announced.

References

External links

Official site
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