Opsware
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| Type of Company | Public (NASDAQ: OPSW) |
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| Founded | September, 1999 (as Loudcloud, Inc.) |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Key people | Marc Andreessen: Chairman, Ben Horowitz: CEO, Mark Cranney: EVP Sales, Tim Howes: CTO |
| Products | Software |
| Slogan | Automating IT |
| Website | www.opsware.com |
Opsware, Inc. NASDAQ: OPSW is a software company based in Sunnyvale, California which offers products for server and network device provisioning, configuration and management targeted toward enterprise customers. They also have offices in New York City, Seattle, Washington and Cary, North Carolina.
The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded in September 9, 1999 (i.e. 9/9/99) as a managed services provider. After selling the operations side of the business to EDS in the summer of 2002, Loudcloud became Opsware and went to market as a technology company, offering the software that had been developed internally to support customer systems via automated server life-cycle management. In December 2003, Opsware acquired asset management systems provider Tangram Enterprise Solutions, and in December 2004 acquired network device configuration management vendor Rendition Networks. Most recently, In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath to fill out their Data Center Automation (DCA) Product offering, by allowing provisioning of Storage components as well.
Opsware's products include:
- The Server Automation System (SAS) - designed to provide provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance reporting, and patching of Windows, Unix, AIX, and Linux servers across thousands of servers.
- The Network Automation System (NAS) - designed to provide network device provisioning, policy enforcement, security lock-down, software management, and compliance reporting across thousands of devices from over 500 variants of device vendors, models, and OS versions. This product is now also being OEM'd by Cisco Systems, and is called the "Network Compliance Manager" (NCM) by Cisco.
- Storage Management (forthcoming) - providing easy provisioning, management, and reporting of storage infrastructures
- Visual Application Manager (VAM) - providing customers of Opsware that use SAS and NAS with a Layer 7 view to the operation of applications, allowing for easy reporting and troubleshooting of application issues.
Opsware customers include HP, EDS, the Federal government of the United States and numerous Fortune 500 companies who use their software to automate their IT infrastructure.
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In July 2006, Opsware acquires CreekPath to fill out their Data Center Automation (DCA) Product offering, by allowing provisioning of Storage components as well.
