Superior Software Delivery Through a Proven PaaS Solution.
Apprenda is an open platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stack for .NET that enables any organization to transform existing infrastructure into a self-service cloud application platform.
By decoupling applications from infrastructure and Developers from IT, Apprenda empowers organizations to achieve significant cost savings, and massive productivity improvements that result in better business/IT alignment.
Today, Apprenda is leading the charge in enabling enterprises to leverage an accessible PaaS pattern and help ISV’s embrace the SaaS delivery paradigm and the benefits of cloud infrastructure.
Apprenda has raised more than $16M in venture capital from early stage investment fund High Peaks Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, and the world’s largest venture fund New Enterprise Associates (NEA), who has funded companies such as SalesForce.com, WebEx and XenSource.
To find out what all the excitement is about, take a closer look at Apprenda today.
How It All Began
Apprenda was founded by a team of software engineers frustrated with reinventing the wheel after working on a series of projects within enterprise IT that could have benefitted from a shared platform and a low friction model for deployment and management tasks. They realized that the bulk of their effort was focused on complex tasks un-related to the actual application’s functionality or business value, but absolutely critical to the application’s ability to scale and its overall manageability.
The team realized that there was little benefit in building the same systems architecture for each application, and that the standard “wait 90 days until we get the infrastructure ready for the app” approach could not be part of the future of enterprise IT. Cloud, and more specifically PaaS, seemed promising because it could solve these problems by providing “out of the box” services to applications, and could be consumed in a “self-service” way by developers.
Unfortunately, for reasons ranging from security and regulatory environment to performance concerns, it was obvious that not all customer enterprise applications could be moved to public cloud. In fact, most applications would have to stay in-house. Seeing the opportunity, Apprenda decided to build the world’s first PaaS software layer – a plug and play system that layered on any infrastructure, could turn it into a PaaS. Essentially, the goal became “if the enterprise can’t go to PaaS, let’s bring PaaS to the enterprise.”
