Engine Yard
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software industry |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Key people | John Dillon, Alan Cyron, Tom Mornini, Dixon Fiske, Marcy Campbell, Bill Platt, Mark Gaydos |
| Products | Engine Yard Cloud, Engine Yard Managed, Orchestra PHP Cloud |
| Website | www.engineyard.com |
Engine Yard is a San Francisco, California based, privately held[1] Platform as a Service company focused on Ruby on Rails and PHP deployment and management.[2] Engine Yard is one of the leading PaaS players for Ruby on Rails and PHP developers.[3]
Engine Yard supports Ruby and JRuby, offers a separate PHP platform, and recently announced support for Node.js. [4]
It handles all the details of pushing the application to the cloud, and monitors their continued operation.[5] Engine Yard solutions are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.[6]
Engine Yard provides extensive tutorials, videos, and podcasts to help developers at every step. For instance, there are detailed sections on the overall platform architecture, troubleshooting, dealing with databases, and migrating to the platform, just to name a few.[7] Engine Yard brings expertise, uptime guarantees and promises of performance and scale.[8]
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[edit] History
Engine Yard, founded in 2006, offers a deployment platform with fully managed services.[9][10] Engine Yard co-founders include Tom Mornini and Lance Walley.[11]
John Dillon joined Engine Yard as CEO in 2009, and previously held the position of CEO at Salesforce from 1999 through 2001.[12]
In August 2011, Engine Yard acquired Orchestra, bringing [PHP] expertise to the Engine Yard team and platform.[13] In September 2011, the company launched Engine Yard Platform Services, a worldwide partner program encompassing over 40 cloud technology leaders that are offering their solutions for the Engine Yard platform.[14] In November of that same year, the company plugged the popular Node.js server-side framework into its PaaS as well.[15]
In early 2012, Engine Yard announced that its revenue doubled year over year to $28 million in 2011 and the number of paying customers rose 50 percent to 2,000 in that time.[16] Engine Yard claims that with its $28 million in revenue for 2011 it is the leading open platform as a service.[17]
CloudStack will be added to the existing IaaS options that are available with the Engine Yard PaaS — Amazon Web Services and Terremark.[18]
Engine Yard sponsors a number of other open-source projects, including Rubinius (an alternate implementation of the Ruby runtime)[19] and JRuby.[20]
One of Engine Yard's founders, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, was the creator of the Merb project[21][22], and the company continued supporting the project by hiring Yehuda Katz to work on the project full time.[23] In December 2008, the Merb and Ruby on Rails projects merged [24][25] and Katz was added to the Rails Core Team.[26]
[edit] Awards & recognitions
In 2009, Engine Yard was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure.[27]
In April 2010, Engine Yard was selected by AlwaysOn as one of the top cloud application platforms in the OnDemand 100.[28][29]
In September 2010, Engine Yard celebrated that JRuby won IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Award 2010 for Best Open Source Application Development Software.[30]
In both 2010 and 2011, Engine Yard was named to SD Times 100 List.[31][32]
[edit] Funding
In January 2008, Engine Yard received an investment of $3.5 million from Benchmark Capital. Some industry commentators interpreted this as an investment in Ruby on Rails.[33]
In July of the same year, Engine Yard secured an additional $15 million from a combination of Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.[34]
In October 2009 Engine Yard announced an additional $19 million in funding from a combination of Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Amazon, Bay Partners, Presidio Ventures and DAG Ventures,[35] for a total of $37.5 million in funding.[36]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2011/06/23/tech-giants-ma-appetite/
- ^ "Engine Yard, Inc.". Engine Yard'. http://www.engineyard.com/company/. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/32927?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2012-02-27#slide11
- ^ http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/infoworld-review-engine-yard-cloud-180355?page=0,1&source=fssr
- ^ http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/platform/229403207
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/pricing
- ^ http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/infoworld-review-engine-yard-cloud-180355?page=0,1&source=fssr
- ^ http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/232602588/the-20-coolest-cloud-platforms-development-vendors.htm?pgno=8
- ^ http://www.benchmark.com/company/engineyard/
- ^ http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gardner/amazon-helps-boost-engine-yards-cloud-computing-efforts-with-capital-infusion/2701
- ^ http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2010/09/engine-yard-interview-with-tom-mornini-cto-and-co-founder/
- ^ http://allthingsd.com/20110207/engine-yard-ceo-john-dillon-talks-about-competing-against-his-old-company-salesforce-com/
- ^ "Engine Yard Conducts Orchestra Acquisition, Adds PHP PaaS". CRN. 2011-08-23. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231500593/engine-yard-conducts-orchestra-acquisition-adds-php-paas.htm;jsessionid=tKls5V6yg8TtOtFi2zYzcQ**.ecappj02. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/engine-yard-grows-its-cloud-ecosystem-with-engine-yard-platform-services-1563833.htm
- ^ http://gigaom.com/cloud/veteran-paas-player-engine-yard-claims-big-momentum/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/cloud/veteran-paas-player-engine-yard-claims-big-momentum/
- ^ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Engine-Yard-Claims-Top-PaaS-Position-With-28M-in-Revenue-272460/
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/engine-yard-joins-the-apache-cloudstack-project/
- ^ http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/engine-yard-bets-big-rubinius
- ^ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135958/Sun_s_JRuby_team_jumps_ship_to_Engine_Yard
- ^ "Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Engine Yard and Rails Deployment". infoq.com. 2007-04-15. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Ezra-Zygmuntowicz-Rails-deployment. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ Ezra Zygmuntowicz (October 2006). "Merb, Mongrel+Erb - msg#00105". osdir.com. http://osdir.com/ml/lang.ruby.mongrel.general/2006-10/msg00105.html. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/01/14/on-the-road-to-merb-1-0
- ^ http://rubyonrails.org/merb
- ^ http://yehudakatz.com/2008/12/23/rails-and-merb-merge/
- ^ http://rubyonrails.org/core
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/engine-yard-named-cool-vendor-by-leading-analyst-firm-61926427.html
- ^ http://alwayson.goingon.com/2010/OnDemand-Top-100-Competiton
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/company/press/2010-04-22-engine-yard-selected-by-alwayson-as-an-ondemand-top-100-winner
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/company/press/2010-09-21-engine-yard-congratulates-jruby-team-on-winning-idg’s-infoworld-bossie-award
- ^ The SD Times 100, 2010: A Noble Gathering of Leaders
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/company/press/2011-06-20-engine-yard-named-sd-times-100-award-winner-for-second-consecutive-year
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/11/benchmark-bets-on-ruby-on-rails-with-35-million-investment-in-engine-yard/
- ^ http://ostatic.com/blog/engine-yard-secures-15-million-in-funding
- ^ http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-raises-19m-for-expansion/
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/engine-yard-acquires-orchestra-to-add-php-support-to-its-paas/
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