APCERA in Containers as a Service

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APCERA
San Francisco, California, US
2012
Below $10 MN
Enterprise
21 Likes
71 Buyers Negotiating

Summary

The Apcera Container Management Platform is a component of global communication technologies and service provider Ericsson’s cloud platform. The platform offers features such as flexibility, agility, and time to value without compromising security. This platform is capable of deploying, orchestrating, and governing containers and legacy applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environment. The container management platform runs the existing apps and fuses the current infrastructure with public and private cloud as a single cluster. Moreover, it provides visibility of all the applications across all infrastructures with comprehensive health monitoring, auditing, and logging. Apcera Container Management Platform accepts a variety of workloads, which include Docker images, app server executables, and source code. By using this platform, customers gain control to modernize their legacy applications through governed integrations with existing Linux-based workloads.

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Strengths
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    Cloud Native Applications
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    Legacy/Traditional Applications
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    Different Types of Applications
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    Multiple Cloud Providers
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    Multiple Container Registries
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    Aggregates data across containers in a service
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    Anomaly Detection
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    Auto create events for alert triggers
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    Auto-Discovery of Containers
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    Configurable Dashboard
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    Product Differentiation and Impact on Customer Value
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    Product Features and Functionality
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    Affinity/Anti-Affinity
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    Automated Release
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    Centralized Management
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    Centralized Management.
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    End-to-End Visibility
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    Frequent Testing
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    Isolation
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    Load Balancing
Cautions
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    Container Management and Orchestration
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    Container Montioring and Analytics
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    Container Security
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    Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
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    Innovations
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    Breadth and Depth of Product Offerings
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    Focus on Product Innovation
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    USP
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    Pricing
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    Value Added Services
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    R&D Spend
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    Product Portfolio
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    Multiple Container Runtime
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    Multiple Programming Language
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    Others
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    Others, please specify
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    Others specify
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    Other Features
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    Specify Others
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    Other Services
APCERA Presence in Containers as a Service
Apcera is one of the key vendors in the CaaS market space. Ericsson, one of the leading telecom players, is a strategic investor in Apcera. Prior to Ericsson, investor funding was done by True Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Rakuten, Andreessen Horowitz, and Data Collective. The company is highly focused on the organic strategies for its consistent growth. It releases product upgrades frequently to stay competitive in the market by serving the dynamic needs of its customers. It also consistently develops new products to gain a competitive edge over other major players in the market. For instance, in November 2016, the company announced the launch of Apcera Platform, a container management platform for cloud-native and legacy applications. The company also announced that it has expanded integration features to further support Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR), Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Furthermore, Apcera has a large number of technology partners such as Apigee, New Relic, Twistlock, CoreOS, and Docker; and system integrators such as Logimethods, TCS, Zensar, and Ammeon, which help the company in strengthening its foothold in the CaaS market. The company majorly caters to the Americas. Recently, it expanded its geographic presence by opening an office in London in December 2015. This expansion strategy would help the company to meet the increasing demand of customers from EMEA.
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