Cloudscaling
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, Cloud computing |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Randy Bias, Adam Waters |
| Defunct | 2014 |
| Fate | Acquired by EMC Corporation |
| Headquarters | San Francisco , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Randy Bias, Adam Waters |
| Products | Open Cloud System |
| Parent | EMC Corporation |
| Website | cloudscaling |
The Cloudscaling Group, Inc. was a software enterprise located in San Francisco, California, United States. Its flagship product, the Open Cloud System, was developed atop the OpenStack open-source platform and facilitated the deployment of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This system supported cloud-native applications comparable to those offered by Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine. Cloudscaling described these as dynamic applications, differentiating them from conventional enterprise IT software.
History
Established in 2006 by Randy Bias and Adam Waters, Cloudscaling originally specialized in providing tailored cloud infrastructure solutions primarily for major telecom service providers. The company’s engineering team brought experience from organizations such as Yahoo!, Amazon Web Services, VMware, and Puppet Labs. One of its initial clients was KT Corporation, for whom Cloudscaling designed and implemented cloud infrastructures utilizing CloudStack along with OpenStack Swift storage—marking the first deployment outside of Rackspace. In 2011, the company rolled out an OpenStack Swift storage cloud for Internap.
In February 2012, Cloudscaling shifted focus to become a product-oriented company with the launch of Open Cloud System version 1.0.
By early 2013, the company introduced Open Cloud System 2.0, securing reference clients including Ubisoft, Living Social, and EVault. That April, it entered into strategic alliances with Seagate Technology and Juniper Networks, who participated alongside Trinity Ventures in a $10 million Series B investment round.
In October 2014, Cloudscaling was acquired by EMC Corporation in a transaction whose financial terms were not publicly disclosed.
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