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

virtual machines In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization/emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardw ...

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

VMware VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software ru ...

OpenStack OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software plat ...

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

Dell Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...

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

& HP Server Automation (formerly

Opsware Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California, that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Redm ...

) * 2012 - 3.0 released, rebranded as CloudBolt with support for AWS &

added * 2013 - 4.0 released, support for

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure ( , ), is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft for application management via around the world-distributed data centers. Microsoft Azure has multiple capabilities such as software as a ...

Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive, and YouTube. Alongside ...

Infoblox Infoblox, formerly (NYSE:BLOX), is a privately held IT automation and security company based in California's Silicon Valley. The company focuses on managing and identifying devices connected to networks—specifically for the Domain Name System ...

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

ServiceNow ServiceNow is an American software company based in Santa Clara, California that develops a cloud computing platform to help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. Founded in 2003 by Fred Luddy, ServiceNow is listed on the ...

* 2015 - 5.0 released with support for

Kubernetes Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains ...

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

Ansible An ansible is a category of fictional devices or technology capable of near-instantaneous or faster-than-light communication. It can send and receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance or obstacle whatsoever with no d ...

, 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 The company received

Series A funding A series A round (also known as series A financing or series A investment) is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture capital financing. The name refers to the class of preferred stock sold to investors in exchan ...

from

Insight Venture Partners Insight Partners (previously Insight Venture Partners) is an American venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City. The firm invests in growth-stage technology, software and Internet businesses. History Insight Partners was fo ...

in July 2018.

Industry recognition

*SIIA CODiE Award for Best Cloud Management Solution, 2020. *Gartner names CloudBolt a "Challenger" in its 2020 ''Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms''. *Tech Target's Impact award for best private and hybrid cloud management product, 2016. * WhatMatrix for CloudManagement, 2017, 2018.

References

External links

Official site
{{Cloud computing Cloud computing Cloud infrastructure Cloud applications Cloud computing providers Companies established in 2012 2012 establishments in Maryland