CloudBees

CloudBees
Industry Continuous Delivery software based on Jenkins CI
Founded 2010
Headquarters Los Altos, CA
Key people
 Sacha Labourey, Francois Dechery, Michel Goossens, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Mike Lambert, Andre Pino, Laurence Poussot, Harpreet Singh, Spike Washburn
Products
  • CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
  • CloudBees Jenkins Operation Center
  • DEV@cloud
Website http://www.cloudbees.com/

CloudBees is a provider of continuous delivery solutions powered by Jenkins CI.[1][2] Initially, CloudBees provided a platform as a service (PaaS) solution to build, run, and manage web applications. The CloudBees PaaS was the first production PaaS to support the entire application lifecycle from development to deployment.[3][4] Sacha Labourey founded the company in early 2010, and major investors include Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures.[1][5] CloudBees is headquartered in Los Altos, CA with additional offices in Lewes, DE, Richmond, VA, Brussels, Belgium and Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[2]

History

Sacha Labourey is the founder and CEO of CloudBees. Labourey created the company to provide developers with a cloud platform that made development of Java applications faster and easier.[3][5] Before starting CloudBees, Labourey led JBoss Europe, ultimately becoming CTO and remaining in that role through the Red Hat acquisition of JBoss in June 2006. He left Red Hat in 2009 and founded CloudBees one year later. With several of its management and core developers coming from JBoss, CloudBees has expertise in middleware and is a proponent of open source.[5]

In September 2014, CloudBees stopped offering runtime PaaS services in order to focus solely on Jenkins as a tool for continuous delivery both on-premise and in the cloud.[2][6] Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the lead developer and founder of the Jenkins project as well as the company's CTO. Several other Jenkins core committers are also employed by CloudBees.[5][6]

Since 2010, CloudBees has raised a total of $50 million in venture financing:[1][3][7][8]

CloudBees Funding

Year Amount (USD) Partners
2010 $4 million Matrix Partners, Marc Fleury, Bob Bickel
2011 $10.5 million Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners
2014 $11.2 million Verizon Ventures, Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blue Cloud Ventures
2015 $23.5 million Lightspeed Venture Partners &existing investors Matrix Partners, Verizon Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures

Products

The CloudBees' products enable organizations to build, test and deploy applications to production, utilizing continuous delivery practices. Continuous delivery is important for companies who are transitioning to a DevOps environment.[9]

The CloudBees products include CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center and DEV@cloud. CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise provides commercial support and additional plugins for open source Jenkins.[6] CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center provides a central way to manage Jenkins across an organization. Masters and plugin versions are more easily maintained and resources can be shared between Jenkins teams.[10] DEV@cloud is a hosted version of Jenkins, running in the cloud, that eliminates the need to maintain the underlying IT infrastructure. Teams can use a hosted version of Jenkins for development and then deploy to popular runtime PaaS offerings, such as Pivotal CF, Google App Engine and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.[11][12]

CloudBees customers include companies such as Northrop Grumman, Hyatt Hotels, EMC, Cisco, The Federal Reserve, Disney and Nordstrom.[1][13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lardinois, Frederic (27 January 2015). "CloudBees Raises $23.5M Funding Round Led By Lightspeed Venture Partners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Alspach, Kyle (14 November 2014). "CloudBees Has Quietly Moved Its HQ to San Francisco". BostInno. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Robin Wauters (July 25, 2011). "CloudBees Zooms to $10.5 Million In Funding For ‘Java-As-A-Platform’". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  4. ↑ Derrick Harrus (July 25, 2012). "3 PaaS Lessons from CloudBees". Giagaom. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Klint Finley (October 1, 2012). "CloudBees". Wired. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Wolpe, Toby (11 September 2014). "Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS and teams up with Pivotal". ZDNet. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Frederic Lardinois (5 March 2014). "CloudBees Raises $11.2M Series C Led By Verizon Ventures To Expand Its Java-Centric Enterprise PaaS". TechCrunch. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  8. ↑ "CloudBees Raises $11m In Series C Financing". Redhat. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ↑ Oliver, Andrew C.; Pinto, Lifford (10 October 2012). "Which freaking PaaS should I use?". Tech World. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  10. ↑ Parkerson, Stuart (13 December 2014). "New CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and Operations Center Announced". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Darrow, Barb (13 September 2014). "Cloudbees bets big that the dev/IT universe is ready for Jenkins everywhere". Gigaom. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  12. ↑ Babcock, Charles (22 September 2014). "CloudBees Drops PaaS, Shifts To Continuous Integration". Information World. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Kepes, Ben (27 January 2015). "That Pivot Seems To Have Worked Out OK--CloudBees Picks Up $23.5M". Forbes. Retrieved 17 April 2015.