founder matt ammerman sinclair schuller abraham sultan headquarters troy ny area served worldwide key people sinclair schuller ceo number of employees 100 2015 1 website www.apprenda.com apprenda is an american computer software company that provides platform as a service paas software to help companies create update and manage private and public cloud based applications . contents 1 history 1.1 founding and operations 1.2 services 2 software 3 funding 4 clients 5 milestones 6 references 7 external links history edit founding and operations edit apprenda was founded in 2007 in clifton park new york by matt ammerman sinclair schuller and abraham sultan . 2 schuller and sultan both graduated from rensselaer polytechnic institute and ammerman graduated from university at albany suny . 2 3 schuller the company s ceo 4 previously worked in it developing applications for large banks . 5 in june 2014 apprenda moved from clifton park to troy new york in part to be closer to rensselaer polytechnic institute . 3 6 with headquarters in new york rather than california forbes has called apprenda the anti silicon valley startup . 2 the company has a second office in new york city with plans to eventually expand into europe . 7 services edit apprenda launched its platform as a service paas in 2007 supporting microsoft s . net framework . the following year apprenda closed its public cloud service and began selling the software behind it so that companies could run it on their own private servers . 2 4 8 in 2010 the company launched saasgrid express a free downloadable saas application platform . 9 10 in september 2012 the company introduced apprendacloud a free public paas providing a raw infrastructure where developers can experiment with creating mobile and cloud based applications before bringing them into apprenda or their own in house infrastructure . 4 11 after previously only supporting . net in february 2013 apprenda added java as a second language adding support for an estimated 90 % of enterprise app development on paas . 7 in 2014 apprenda and microsoft offered users access to the microsoft azure cloud system at no additional cost so customers can deploy a paas that bridges their own data center and azure . 12 13 beyond azure apprenda s work with microsoft extends to windows server team foundation server windows azure pack sql server and oracle enterprise databases . 14 software edit apprenda s paas software is aimed primarily at developers working for organizations such as banks insurance companies and healthcare providers 7 to build and manage new applications and to move their existing applications to the cloud . 15 16 unlike other paas providers whose software runs in the public cloud apprenda s software runs in the private cloud . due to privacy issues companies like banks and healthcare providers generally prefer to use the private cloud . 7 17 with partnerships from apprenda s onecloud alliance aimed at ensuring interoperability and portability companies can move their existing applications to either the public cloud i.e. amazon web services or microsoft azure their own private cloud or to a mixture of public and private . 14 16 18 the technology is capable of shifting java and . net applications from single to multitenancy . 19 apprenda introduced version 1.0 of paas software in mid 2011 . 17 version 4.0 released in november 2012 add features designed to make it easier to shift between the private and public cloud with a single click feature . the company this makes it easier to build next generation clarification needed cloud based apps and update existing apps without having to change much code . this aims to allow companies the security of the private cloud with the convenience and scalability of the public cloud . 5 20 in early 2014 apprenda released version 5.0 of its paas software which includes dynamic scaling and support for oracle databases . 17 funding edit apprenda raised 5 million in 2009 and another 11 million in 2011 . 18 it raised its initial 16 million in venture capital financing from high peaks venture partners ignition partners and new enterprise associates . 8 in november 2013 apprenda announced it had raised an additional 16 million . 2 19 in july 2015 apprenda raised another 24 million led by investor safeguard scientifics bringing its total venture stake to 56 million . 21 clients edit apprenda s clients include jpmorgan chase boeing honeywell diebold mckesson symantec amerisourcebergen dell memorial sloan kettering and quest software . 2 7 8 12 16 19 the company s software is being used by jpmorgan chase to host and get better control of over 3 000 apps which is the largest private paas in the world . 7 18 milestones edit year event 2007 apprenda is founded in clifton park ny . 2008 launches initial product offering with support for . net framework . 2010 releases a free and self installable version of their product . 2012 apprendacloud is introduced . 2013 apprenda adds support for java . 2014 partners with microsoft to become compatible with azure . moves headquarters to troy ny . references edit chelsea diana from troy to england and back albany business review october 15 2015 . a b c d e f susan adams apprenda the anti silicon valley startup forbes december 16 2013 . a b larry rulison apprenda moving to downtown troy times union may 29 2014 . a b c klint finley apprenda joins army of microsoft clouds sorta wired september 17 2012 . a b alex williams apprenda launches a hybrid development platform for developing apps on premises and the cloud techcrunch november 27 2012 . keshia clukey software developer apprenda moves to troy albany business review may 30 2014 . a b c d e f sean ludwig apprenda adds java as a second language will support 90 % of enterprise paas needs venturebeat february 27 2013 . a b c lyneka little how the young founder of apprenda landed 16 million from albany n.y. entrepreneur october 26 2012 . dana gardner with eye on cloud standard apprenda offers free downloadable version of saas application server zdnet june 1 2010 . phil wainewright saasgrid express irresponsible or indispensable zdnet june 2 2010 . barb darrow apprenda seeks to make private paas more practical gigaom september 17 2012 . a b charles babcock apprenda microsoft team for hybrid paas informationweek april 29 2014 . barb darrow microsoft and apprenda tighten up their paas pact gigaom april 29 2014 . a b vance mccarthy apprenda onecloud alliance attracts top vendors ; promotes open interoperable enterprise paas integration developer news september 8 2014 . christopher mims why isn t apple a leader in security wall street journal september 7 2014 . a b c arik hesseldahl apprenda helping big companies embrace the cloud lands 16 million all things digital november 20 2013 . a b c charles babcock apprenda 5.0 eases cloud application scaling informationweek january 28 2014 . a b c eric blattberg back to the future cloud platform apprenda snags 16m venturebeat november 20 2013 . a b c jack clark cloud upstart apprenda plots euro invasion with sugar daddies 16m pot the register november 20 2013 . hamish mckenzie in cloud week apprenda launches a platform that swings both ways public and private pandodaily november 27 2012 . matt weinberger ex morgan stanley programmer raises 24 million to make old apps new again business insider july 21 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title apprenda & oldid 700954218 categories companies established in 2007companies based in new yorksoftware companies based in new yorkcloud platformscloud computing providershidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from october 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 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