tony lucas headquarters london united kingdom key people john pocock chairman george knox ceo alex bligh coo cto jim foley svp services cloud software cloud computing number of employees 50 100 2013 website flexiant.com flexiant was a uk based software company founded in 2009 that provides software to cloud services providers . 1 flexiant has offices in london edinburgh and new york city and software test labs in amsterdam and london . history edit in 1997 flexiant s founder tony lucas formed a hosting company called xcalibre communications . one of xcalibre s products was extility a cloud orchestration software . in 2007 xcalibre built and launched flexiscale 2 better source needed using extility . flexiscale was europe s first public cloud platform released nine months earlier than amazon s european cloud platform . citation needed this platform consisted of pay as you go virtual dedicated servers that could be set up by customers themselves . 3 xcalibre the web hosting business was sold in 2009 and the remaining company was renamed flexiant . 4 flexiant focused on developing software for other service providers in europe . in 2010 flexiant launched the first version of extility cloud orchestration and by 2011 95 customers were using the software . citation needed in 2012 flexiant secured additional funding and expanded their management team . the extility software was renamed flexiant cloud orchestrator version 2.0 . flexiant developed partnerships with companies in europe and the us created a test lab in amsterdam and opened an office in new york . in november 2012 a new version of flexiant cloud orchestrator version 3.0 was released . 5 in the same month the info tech research group awarded the trendsetter award to flexiant for the previous version . 6 in 2013 flexiant became the premier sponsor of cloud expo europe . 7 in may 2013 flexiant released flexiant cloud orchestrator v3 .1 followed by v4 .0 in november . 8 in oct 2014 flexiant launched flexiant concerto a multi cloud workload management system . 9 references edit investing business week . retrieved 24 october 2012 . xcalibre announces flexiscale on demand computing . retrieved 10 december 2012 . flexiscale utility computing on demand . retrieved 16 april 2012 . flexiscale raises funds and re launches as flexiant . retrieved 10 december 2012 . the whir . retrieved 7 december 2012 . flexiant named cloud management trendsetter by info tech research group . retrieved 16 november 2012 . cloud expo europe . retrieved 10 january 2013 . broadway world . retrieved 4 november 2013 . flexiant opens new multi cloud revenue opportunities for managed service providers and telcos . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flexiant & oldid 725635633 categories software companies of the united kingdomhidden categories all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles lacking reliable references from july 2015all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 june 2016 at 22 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view