Apprenda Acquires Kismatic and is Now Offering Commercial Distribution of Kubernetes 

TROY, N.Y., May 24 -- Apprenda, a leading provider of cloud-native technologies for the enterprise, today announced that it now offers a commercial distribution of Kubernetes, along with new enterprise support subscriptions available to any company running Kubernetes. These new offerings come as an expansion of Apprenda's acquisition of Kismatic, the enterprise Kubernetes company. Kubernetes is a fast-growing open-source project created by and based on Google's 10+ years of experience managing Linux container-based workloads at massive scale.

As the world moves toward a container-centric IT model, Apprenda's acquisition of Kismatic will accelerate the company's vision of powering the transition to cloud-native applications and enabling developers to build software quickly and reliably. Patrick Reilly, CEO and founder of Kismatic and governing board member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, will become Apprenda's corporate CTO and lead its Kubernetes strategy. Prior to Kismatic, Patrick founded Orly Atomics, which was acquired by Mesosphere.

Apprenda's cloud platform enables companies to develop, deploy and manage the thousands of existing applications in their portfolios as well as quickly deliver cloud-native applications and microservices. In March 2016, Apprenda announcedit would adopt Kubernetes to add further support for cloud-native applications and that it would build Kubernetes support for Windows Server and .NET.

"The Kismatic team is an influential part of the Kubernetes community," Sinclair Schuller, CEO and co-founder of Apprenda, said. "Kismatic's expertise and work on Kubernetes made their team highly attractive and will accelerate our rapidly growing business. They know Kubernetes better than almost anyone, so they will be central in expanding Apprenda's plans."

Headquartered in San Francisco, the Kismatic team will add depth to Apprenda's already impressive roster of talent. Apprenda will continue to expand Kismatic's existing business operations, including:

• Supporting subscriptions that provide Kubernetes users with guaranteed SLAs for production and non-production Kubernetes instances.
• Offering professional services that help customers define and extend cloud strategies related to containers and Kubernetes.
• Providing tooling related to Kubernetes and its intersection with the Apprenda platform including Kubernetes enterprise plugins for identity management (LDAP/Active Directory), Kerberos authentication, and rich auditing for heavily regulated industries.

As part of their major contributions to the Kubernetes project, Kismatic contributed the open-source dashboard for Kubernetes. Recently, Kismatic donated the KubeCon conference to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The third KubeCon will occur this November in Seattle and is expected to draw more than 1,000 attendees.

"We are tremendously excited to join Apprenda," Reilly said. "Apprenda has impressed us over the years. The largest enterprises need Apprenda's help to manage existing apps and new cloud-native apps on the same platform. Now we can bring Kismatic's expertise into the fold and add additional value."

About Apprenda

Apprenda is the leading enterprise cloud platform powering the next generation of enterprise software development in public, private and hybrid clouds. As a foundational software layer and application run-time environment, Apprenda removes the complexities of building and delivering modern software applications, enabling enterprises to innovate faster. With Apprenda, enterprise development teams can securely deliver an entire ecosystem of data, services, applications and APIs to internal and external customers across any infrastructure. Visit Apprenda at www.apprenda.com or follow us on Twitter at @apprenda.

Source: Apprenda