| Apcera | |
| Type: | Private |
| Foundation: | 2012 |
| Founder: | Derek Collison |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Key People: | Derek Collison (CEO) |
| Industry: | Technology Software |
| Website: | apcera.com |
| Num Employees: | 120 (2016) |
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.
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]
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.
Some of Apcera’s customers include nextSource, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Cygate, Rodan Fields
| 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] |