Pivotal Software
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| Industry | Computer software |
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| Founded | April 2013 |
| Headquarters |
San Francisco Palo Alto, California |
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| Website | www.pivotal.io |
Pivotal Software, Inc. (Pivotal) is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Pivotal's companies include Pivotal Labs, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Big Data Suite and Pivotal Data Science. Pivotal Software is also the creator of many popular frameworks and primary contributor to various open source technologies.
History
Pivotal Software was formed in 2012 after spinning out of EMC Corporation. On April 24, 2013, the organization announced both a $105 million investment from General Electric and its PaaS offering, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), a cloud-enabled application platform for private cloud initiatives and public cloud providers.[1][2]
Paul Maritz became Pivotal's CEO immediately after the spin out.[2] Maritz joined EMC in February 2008 when Pi Corporation, a company he co-founded, was acquired and was previously the CEO of VMware.[3][4]
Paul Maritz became Pivotal's Chairman and Rob Mee, founder of Pivotal labs, became chief executive officer of Pivotal Software on August 18, 2015.
Competitors
- C3 IoT
- Amazon Web Services
- Apprenda
- Hazelcast
- Heroku
- HP Cloud Services
- IBM
- MarkLogic
- OpenShift
- OpenStack
- Oracle
- ParAccel
- Rackspace Cloud
- Red Hat
- Teradata
- Windows Azure
References
- ↑ GE Joins EMC and VMware in a Joint Venture to Challenge Software Megavendors in the Cloud, Gartner, 24-April-2013
- 1 2 Quentin Hardy (April 24, 2013). "Pivotal’s Audacious Plan". New York Times Bits. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
- ↑ "EMC To Acquire Pi Corporation, Developer of Personal Information Management Technology". Press release (EMC). February 21, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Executive Team". Company web site. Pivotal. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
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