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| Type | Subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard |
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| Founded | September, 1999 (as Loudcloud, Inc.) |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Key people | Marc Andreessen: Chairman and founder[1], Ben Horowitz: CEO and founder[1], Tim Howes: CTO and founder[1], In Sik Rhee: COO and founder[1] |
| Products | Software |
| Website | www.opsware.com |
Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California which offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Seattle, Washington and Cary, North Carolina.
In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash ($14.25 per share)
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History
The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded on 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. In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath to fill out its Data Center Automation (DCA) product offering, by allowing provisioning of storage components as well. Lastly, in March 2007 Opsware acquired Seattle-based iConclude and their run-book automation software, which allowed Opsware to tightly integrate datacenter management duties end-to-end.
In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash ($14.25 per share), 16x revenues. It is HP's fourth largest acquisition behind Compaq, EDS and Mercury.
Products
- 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.
- Application Storage Automation System (ASAS) - providing easy management and reporting of storage infrastructures
- Visual Application Manager (VAM) - providing customers of Opsware that use SAN and NAS with a Layer 7 view of the operation of applications, allowing for easy reporting and troubleshooting of application issues.
- The Process Automation System (PAS)- provides run-book automation from former partner iConclude (who was acquired in March 2007).
Customers
Opsware customers included its now parent HP, GE, EDS (whose acquisition was completed by HP August 28, 2008, and is now called EDS, An HP Company), the Federal government of the United States and numerous Fortune 500 companies who use their software to automate their IT infrastructure.
References
- ^ a b c d David Sheff (2008-08). "Crank it up". Wired Magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/loudcloud_pr.html.
- Lawton, Christopher and Kingsbury, Kevin. "H-P Makes Move Into Data Centers", The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2007. Accessed July 23, 2007.
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