CloudBolt Software, Inc.
Formerly | SmartCloud |
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded 📆 | 2011[1] |
| Founder 👔 | Bernard Sanders Auggy Da Rocha |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , U.S. |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | Brian Kelly (CEO) Bernard Sanders (CTO) Auggy Da Rocha (Product Architect) |
| Products 📟 | CloudBolt |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
CloudBolt Software provides a hybrid cloud management platform[2][3] that simplifies the process of ordering and managing virtual machines (VMs)[4][5], applications, and other IT resources, both in public clouds (ex. AWS, Azure) and in private datacenters (ex. VMware, OpenStack). IT departments at large organizations install CloudBolt on-premises and provide it as a self-interface[6][7] to their internal and external customers for requesting VMs and other resources. CloudBolt orchestrates automated builds of these resources, manages them through their lifecycle, and handles their expiration & clean up.
Overview[edit]
CloudBolt Software is a hybrid cloud management platform that enables enterprise IT departments to build, deploy, and manage private and public clouds quickly and efficiently. The user-friendly portal hides the complexities of hybrid cloud, giving end-users the ability to manage and provision resources on demand, while administrators set provisioning conditions for governance. With CloudBolt, IT leverages its investment and controls costs while providing self-service IT, and increasing flexibility and agility.
Industry Recognition[edit]
- Gartner Cool Vendor Award, 2014[8]
- RedHerring's top 100 companies, 2015[9]
- Tech Target's Impact award for best private and hybrid cloud management product, 2016[10][11]
- WhatMatrix Community Award for best CMP, 2017[12]
History[edit]
The company was formed in 2011 by Auggy da Rocha (formerly of August Schell Enterprises), and Bernard Sanders (formerly of Opsware & HP). da Rocha and Sanders had worked with large enterprise IT departments throughout the 2000s and both independently observed a pressing need for a self-service portal for automated provisioning of virtual machines. da Rocha began work on a prototype of the system in 2010, calling it SmartCloud 1.0. He shared his thoughts about the product with Sanders in early 2011, and they incorporated (as SmartCloud) in 2011. Together they created a generalized solution, which was released in August of 2011 as SmartCloud 2.0. The early version focused on simple installs and upgrades, and building an extensible product that customers could tailor to their needs.
In 2012, they grew the team, renamed the company to CloudBolt Software (to avoid a name conflict with an IBM offering), and released version CloudBolt Command and Control 3.0. In 2014, the product name "CloudBolt Command and Control (C2)" was simplified to "CloudBolt".
Product Timeline (with external technology support indicated):
- 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 & OpenStack added
- 2013 - 4.0 released, support for Azure, GCP, InfoBlox, vCO (now vRO), and HP Operations Orchestration, Cobbler
- 2014 - 4.5 released, including integration with Puppet & Chef, ServiceNow
- 2015 - 5.0 released with support for Kubernetes container orchestrator and Razor bare metal provisioning
- 2016 - 6.0 released, with support for Azure ARM, Ansible, Oracle Public Cloud
- 2017 - 7.0 18 total public clouds and private virtualization systems supported, 4 configuration managers, and 2 external orchestrators
References[edit]
- ↑ "Finance.yahoo.com". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ↑ "CloudBolt Software administers your IT, no matter where it runs". gigaom. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "CloudBolt Launches New Platform Features To Simplify Multi-Cloud Enterprise Environments". Tom's IT Pro. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "Software-Defined Cloud Centers: Operational and Management Technologies". Springer. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "CloudBolt aims to make VM provisioning dead easy". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "CloudBolt Brings Self-Service Capabilities to IT Management Platform". DataCenter Knowledge. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "Creating self-service IT environments with CloudBolt". Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2014". gartner.com. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "2015 Top 100 North America: Winners". Red Herring. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "CloudBolt tops Impact Awards for private cloud management". TechTarget. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "CloudBolt clears up muddied private, hybrid cloud field". TechTarget. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ↑ "And the Community Award for Best CMP goes to..." WhatMatrix. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
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