Opsware
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Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in
In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share). The acquisition closed on September 21, 2007.[2]
HP subsequently split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The latter included Opsware's products and services and, in 2017, the HPE Software business group spin-merged with Micro Focus. Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText in 2023.
History
The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded on September 9, 1999 (i.e., 9/9/99) by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee as a managed services provider.[3] The company was one of the first to offer software as a service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model.[4] According to Wired, Loudcloud was one of the first vendors to talk about cloud computing and Software as a Service.[5]
In June 2000, Loudcloud raised $120 million, in what was at the time the largest second round of funding.[6] This was shortly followed by a $100 million raise by one of its competitors, Totality Corporation (at the time known as MimEcom).[7]
After selling the operations side of the business to
In July 2007,
In 2015, HP's Software division was spun off to become part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Two years later in 2017, HP Software merged with UK-based Micro Focus in a spin-merge. In 2023, OpenText acquired Micro Focus. All former Opsware tools are now grouped under the OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management suite.
Products
Opsware had three main systems that it marketed. The Server Automation System (SAS) was designed to provide provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance reporting, and patching of Windows, Unix and Linux servers across thousands of servers. It is now sold as HP Server Automation software.[14] The Network Automation System (NAS) was 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 was also
Customers
Opsware customers included its now parent
companies who used the software to automate their IT infrastructure.References
- ^ Wired Magazine.
- ^ HP Closes Opsware Acquisition news release
- ^ "The Case for the Fat Start-Up." Wall St. Journal's All Things Digital: 3/17, Ben Horowitz.
- ^ Computeractive.co.uk
- ^ Wired Magazine. "Crank it up". David Sheff. 2000-08
- ^ Braunschweig, Carolina (3 July 2000). "VCs Rain $120M Down on Loudcloud". Private Equity Week: 3.
- ^ San Francisco Business Times. "Net startup MimEcom.com bags $100M" Todd Stein. 2000-07-30
- ^ Business Wire. Opsware Inc. Completes Acquisition of Tangram Enterprise Solutions; Integration of Products Furthers Opsware's Lead in Automation and Utility Computing
- ^ Business Wire. Opsware Completes Rendition Acquisition, Furthering Leadership in Rapidly Growing IT Automation Market. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ Business Wire. Opsware Completes Acquisition of Creekpath Systems; Acquisition Provides Foundation Technology. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ Northwest Innovation. iConclude Acquisition Completes. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ China Martens, IDG News Service. HP Buying Opsware in $1.65 Billion Deal. PC World
- ^ HP Data Center Automation Center product pages[permanent dead link]
- ^ HP Website product pages[permanent dead link]
- ^ HP Product Web page[permanent dead link]
- ^ HP Product Web pages
- ^ Stacey Higginbotham. GigaOM. HP Completes EDS Buy, Heads for the Clouds
- ^ News Release. EDS, an HP Company, Becoming HP Enterprise Services
- Lawton, Christopher and Kingsbury, Kevin. "H-P Makes Move Into Data Centers", The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2007. Accessed July 23, 2007.
External links
- ^ "Micro Focus Completes Merger with HPE Software Business, Creating One of World's Largest Pure-play Software Companies | Micro Focus". www.microfocus.com. Retrieved 2017-12-20.