INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds
Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with help from S28
company is solving a couple of big problems around cloud portability
Those dependencies make it difficult to move an application to another cloud without additional coding.He says that the other problem is
related to on-going management of an application after you deploy it in the cloud, and that requires a large operations team
The problem with that is that there is a shortage of talent to fill these positions.To solve these problems, Gravitational looked to
The company believes customers should build software using Kubernetes, open-source software and standards, and instead of building in the
even have a cloud account in the beginning
Make sure your application runs on top of Kubernetes, package all of your software dependencies into Kubernetes, use open-source software
deploy on any cloud, private data center or even make available as download like you could with software back in the 1990s.He sees
organizations moving to container-driven software using Kubernetes, and as they do this, he believes they can break this dependency on the
Gravitational has 20 employees and around 100 paying customers
The company offers a couple of tools, Gravity and Gravitational Teleport as open source
It was a member of the Y Combinator 2015 cohort.
