Nebula (company)
Chris C. Kemp, Devin Carlen, Steve O'Hara | |
| Defunct | (April 1, 2015) |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Website | Nebula.com |
Nebula, Inc. was a hardware and
private cloud. The Nebula One private cloud system was built on the OpenStack
open source cloud framework, as well as many other open source software projects.
History
Nebula was founded as Fourth Paradigm Development in March 2011 by former NASA
Chris C. Kemp, long-time colleague Devin Carlen, entrepreneur Steve O'Hara, with software engineer Tres Henry, formerly at Amazon Web Services and author of the AWS Console, named as the head of User Experience.[1]
In May 2011, Nebula closed a round of series A investment led by
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Google's first three investors—Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, and David Cheriton, as well as other investors.[2]
In the summer of 2012, eight members of the original Anso Labs (acquired by
Rackspace) and NASA team that originally wrote components of the OpenStack project joined Nebula.[3]
In the fall of 2012, Nebula closed a $25 million series B investment led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital, and Google executive Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors became an investor.[4]
In March 2013, Nebula was named one of CIO.com 10 Hot Cloud Companies to Watch.[5] Nebula One, was made generally available on April 2, 2013.[6]
On April 1, 2015 the company announced on its website and confirmed on Twitter that it was ceasing operations.[7][8]
References
- ^ Weinberger, Matthew. "Nebula: Who We Are and How We Came to Be". Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (July 27, 2011). "NASA's former CTO launches Nebula cloud controller". The Register. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ Darrow, Barb (23 July 2012). "OpenStack developers leave Rackspace for Nebula". GigaOM. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ Rao, Leena (4 September 2012). "Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premises, Private Clouds". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ Vance, Jeff (4 March 2013). "10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch". Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ Williams, Alex (2 April 2013). "Nearly Two Years Later, Nebula Launches A Mainframe Style "Cloud Computer" Built On OpenStack". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Ben Kepes (April 1, 2015). "OpenStack Carnage--Nebula Shuts Down". Forbes. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ^ "OpenStack hardware startup Nebula shuts down". Venture Beat. April 1, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
External links
- Nebula website
