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* [http://engineyard.com/ Official site]
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* [http://vimeo.com/38800978/ Forrester video - Gain Competitive Advantage with Platform as a Service]
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Engine Yard
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware industry
Founded2006
FounderEzra Zygmuntowicz, Lance Walley, Tom Mornini
Headquarters
San Francisco
Key people
John Dillon, Alan Cyron, Tom Mornini, Dixon Fiske, Marcy Campbell, Bill Platt, Mark Gaydos
ProductsEngine Yard Cloud, Engine Yard Managed, Orchestra PHP Cloud
Websitewww.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.[4] Engine Yard brings expertise, uptime guarantees and promises of performance and scale.[7]

History

Engine Yard, founded in 2006, offers a deployment platform with fully managed services.[8][9] Engine Yard co-founders include Tom Mornini, Lance Walley and Ezra Zygmuntowicz.[10]

John Dillon joined Engine Yard as CEO in 2009, and previously held the position of CEO at Salesforce from 1999 through 2001.[11]

In August 2011, Engine Yard acquired Orchestra, bringing [PHP] expertise to the Engine Yard team and platform.[12] 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.[13] In November of that same year, the company plugged the popular Node.js server-side framework into its PaaS as well.[14]

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.[14] Engine Yard claims that with its $28 million in revenue for 2011 it is the leading open platform as a service.[15]

CloudStack will be added to the existing IaaS options that are available with the Engine Yard PaaS — Amazon Web Services and Terremark.[16]

Engine Yard sponsors a number of other open-source projects, including Rubinius (an alternate implementation of the Ruby runtime).[17]

One of Engine Yard's founders, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, was the creator of the Merb project[18][19], and the company continued supporting the project by hiring Yehuda Katz to work on the project full time.[20] In December 2008, the Merb and Ruby on Rails projects merged[21][22] and Katz was added to the Rails Core Team.[23]

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.[24]

In July of the same year, Engine Yard secured an additional $15 million from a combination of Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.[25]

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,[26] for a total of $37.5 million in funding.[27]

In November 2012, Oracle Corporation announced that it made a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Engine Yard will continue to operate as an independent company. [28]

See also

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Colleen (June 23, 2011), "Tech giants are hungry for M&A — really hungry", gigaom, retrieved July 29, 2012
  2. ^ "About Us", Engine Yard, retrieved April 6, 2012
  3. ^ Burns, Christine (February 26, 2012), "10 most powerful PaaS companies", Network World, retrieved July 29, 2012
  4. ^ a b Glover, Andrew (November 30, 2011), "InfoWorld review: Engine Yard Cloud", InfoWorld, retrieved July 29, 2012 (subscription required)
  5. ^ Babcock, Charles (May 11, 2011), "Engine Yard Sees Ruby As Cloud Springboard", InformationWeek, retrieved July 29, 2012
  6. ^ "Products", Engine Yard, retrieved July 29, 2012
  7. ^ Hickey, Andrew R. (March 14, 2012), "The 20 Coolest Cloud Platforms & Development Vendors", CRN, p. 8, retrieved July 29, 2012
  8. ^ "ENGINEYARD OVERVIEW", Benchmark Capital, retrieved July 29, 2012
  9. ^ Gardner, Dana (July 14, 2008), "Amazon helps boost Engine Yard's cloud computing efforts with capital infusion", BriefingsDirect, retrieved July 29, 2012
  10. ^ Park, Anthony (September 14, 2010), "Engine Yard Interview with Tom Mornini, CTO and Co Founder", CloudTweaks, retrieved July 29, 2012
  11. ^ Hesseldahl, Arik (February 7, 2011), "Engine Yard CEO John Dillon Talks About Competing Against His Old Company, Salesforce.com", AllThingsD, retrieved July 29. 2012 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  12. ^ Engine Yard Conducts Orchestra Acquisition, Adds PHP PaaS, CRN, August 23, 2011, retrieved April 6, 2012
  13. ^ "Engine Yard Grows Its Cloud Ecosystem With Engine Yard Platform Services", Engine Yard, September 21, 2011, retrieved July 29, 2012
  14. ^ a b Darrow, Barb (February 9, 2012), "Veteran PaaS player Engine Yard claims big momentum", gigaom, retrieved July 29, 2012
  15. ^ Taft, Darryl K. (February 10, 2012), "Engine Yard Claims Top PaaS Position With $28M in Revenue", eWeek, retrieved July 29, 2012
  16. ^ Platt, Bill (April 3, 2012), "Engine Yard Joins the Apache CloudStack Project", Engine Yard Blog, retrieved July 29, 2012
  17. ^ Fernandez, Obie (December 10, 2007), "Engine Yard Bets Big on Rubinius", InfoQ, retrieved July 29, 2012
  18. ^ "Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Engine Yard and Rails Deployment", InfoQ, April 15, 2007, retrieved April 10, 2011
  19. ^ Zygmuntowicz, Ezra (October 2006), "Merb, Mongrel+Erb - msg#00105", lang.ruby.mongrel.general mailing list, retrieved April 10, 2011
  20. ^ On the road to Merb 1.0, January 14, 2008, retrieved July 29, 2012[dead link]
  21. ^ "The day Merb joined Rails", Ruby on Rails, retrieved July 29, 2012
  22. ^ Katz, Yehuda (December 23, 2008), "Rails and Merb Merge", Personal Blog, retrieved July 29, 2012
  23. ^ "The core team", Ruby on Rails, retrieved July 29, 2012
  24. ^ Schonfeld, Erick (January 11, 2008), "Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard", TechCrunch, retrieved July 29, 2012
  25. ^ Lerner, Reuven (July 14, 2008), "Engine Yard Secures $15 Million in Funding", ostatic, retrieved July 29, 2012
  26. ^ Dillon, John (October 7, 2009), "Engine Yard Raises $19M for Expansion", Engine Yard Blog, retrieved July 29, 2012
  27. ^ "Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra To Add PHP Support To Its PaaS", TechCrunch, August 23, 2011, retrieved July 29, 2012 {{citation}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  28. ^ Oracle Invests in Leading Platform-as-a-Service Company Engine Yard, November 13, 2012


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