Hitachi Vantara, the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on constructing {hardware} and software program to assist corporations handle their knowledge, at the moment announced that it has acquired the belongings of Containership, one of many earlier gamers within the container ecosystem, which shut down its operations final October.
Containership, which launched as a part of our 2015 Disrupt New York Startup Battlefield, began as a service that helped companies transfer their containerized workloads between clouds, however as so many related startups, it then moved on to focus solely on Kubernetes and serving to enterprises handle their Kubernetes infrastructure. Earlier than it referred to as it quits, the corporate’s specialty was managing multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments. The corporate wasn’t capable of monetize its Kubernetes efforts rapidly sufficient, although, the corporate stated on the time in a weblog publish that it has now removed from its web site.
“Containership permits prospects to simply deploy and handle Kubernetes clusters and containerized functions in public cloud, non-public cloud, and on-premise environments,” writes Bobby Soni, the COO for digital infrastructure at Hitachi Vantara. “The software program addresses essential cloud native utility points going through prospects working with Kubernetes similar to persistent storage assist, centralized authentication, entry management, audit logging, steady deployment, workload portability, price evaluation, autoscaling, upgrades, and extra.”
Hitachi Vantara tells me that it isn’t buying any of Containership’s buyer contracts or workers and has no plans to maintain the Containership model. “Our main focus is to develop new choices based mostly on the Containership IP. We do hope to interact with prior prospects as soon as our new choices turn into commercially accessible,” an organization spokesperson stated.
The businesses didn’t disclose the worth of the acquisition. Pittsburgh-based Containership solely raised about $2.6 million because it was based in 2014, although, and issues had turn into fairly quiet across the firm within the final 12 months or two earlier than its early demise. Likelihood is then that the worth wasn’t all that prime. Traders embody Birchmere Ventures, Draper Triangle and Innovation Works.
Hitachi Vantara says it’s going to proceed to work with the Kubernetes group. Containership was a member of the Cloud Native Computing Basis. Hitachi by no means was, however after this acquisition, that will change.
