INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hitachi Vantara, the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on building hardware and software to help companies manage their
data, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Containership, one of the earlier players in the container ecosystem, which shut
down its operations last October.
Containership, which launched as part of our 2015 Disrupt New York Startup Battlefield, started as a
service that helped businesses move their containerized workloads between clouds, but as so many similar startups, it then moved on to focus
solely on Kubernetes and helping enterprises manage their Kubernetes infrastructure
Before it called it quits, the company specialty was managing multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments
The company wasn''t able to monetize its Kubernetes efforts quickly enough, though, the company said at the time in a blog post that it has
now removed from its website.
Containership enables customers to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized
applications in public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments,& writes Bobby Soni, the COO for digital infrastructure at Hitachi
&The software addresses critical cloud native application issues facing customers working with Kubernetes such as persistent storage
support, centralized authentication, access control, audit logging, continuous deployment, workload portability, cost analysis, autoscaling,
upgrades, and more.
Hitachi Vantara tells me that it is not acquiring any of Containership customer contracts or employees and has no plans
to keep the Containership brand
&Our primary focus is to develop new offerings based on the Containership IP
We do hope to engage with prior customers once our new offerings become commercially available,& a company spokesperson said.
The companies
did not disclose the price of the acquisition
Pittsburgh-based Containership only raised about $2.6 million since it was founded in 2014, though, and things had become pretty quiet
around the company in the last year or two before its early demise
Chances are then that the price wasn''t all that high
Investors include Birchmere Ventures, Draper Triangle and Innovation Works.
Hitachi Vantara says it will continue to work with the
Containership was a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Hitachi never was, but after this acquisition, that may change.
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