Nebula

Nebula Inc

Type| Private
Industry| Cloud Computing
Founded| Menlo Park, California , United States (March 25, 2011 (2011-03-25))
Founder| Chris C. Kemp, Devin Carlen, Steve O'Hara
Defunct| (April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01))
Headquarters|

Mountain View, California

U.S.

Website| Nebula.com

Nebula, Inc. was a hardware and software company with offices in Mountain View, California, and Seattle, Washington, USA. Nebula developed Nebula One, a cloud computing hardware appliance that turned racks of standard servers into a private cloud. The Nebula One private cloud system was built on the OpenStack open source cloud framework, as well as many other open source software projects.

## History

Nebula was founded as Fourth Paradigm Development in March 2011 by former NASA Ames Research Center chief technology officer Chris C. Kemp, long-time colleague Devin Carlen, entrepreneur Steve O'Hara, with software engineer Tres Henry, formerly at Amazon Web Services and author of the AWS Console, named as the head of User Experience.[1]

In May 2011, Nebula closed a round of series A investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Google's first three investors—Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, and David Cheriton, as well as other investors.[2]

In the summer of 2012, eight members of the original Anso Labs (acquired by Rackspace) and NASA team that originally wrote components of the OpenStack project joined Nebula.[3]

In the fall of 2012, Nebula closed a $25 million series B investment led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital, and Google executive Eric Schmidt’s venture fund Innovation Endeavors became an investor.[4]

In February 2013, Silicon India named Kemp as one of ten pioneers in cloud computing.[5] In March 2013, Nebula was named one of CIO.com 10 Hot Cloud Companies to Watch.[6] Nebula One, was made generally available on April 2, 2013.[7]

On April 1, 2015 the company announced on its website and confirmed on Twitter that it was ceasing operations.[8][9]

## References

1. ↑ Weinberger, Matthew. "Nebula: Who We Are and How We Came to Be". Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. https://archive.today/20130411110314/https://www.nebula.com/blog/2012/10/18/who-we-are-and-how-we-came-be/. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
2. ↑ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (July 27, 2011). "NASA's former CTO launches Nebula cloud controller". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/nebula_openstack_cloud_controller/print.html. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
3. ↑ Darrow, Barb (23 July 2012). "OpenStack developers leave Rackspace for Nebula". GigaOM. http://gigaom.com/2012/07/23/openstack-developers-leave-rackspace-for-nebula/. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
4. ↑ Rao, Leena (4 September 2012). "Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premises, Private Clouds". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/nebula-raises-25m-from-comcast-kleiner-perkins-to-help-companies-deploy-on-premise-private-clouds/. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
5. ↑ "10 Pioneers Of Cloud Computing". Silicon India. February 17, 2013. http://www.siliconindia.com/news/enterpriseit/10-Pioneers-Of-Cloud-Computing-nid-141265-cid-7.html. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
6. ↑ Vance, Jeff (4 March 2013). "10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch". http://www.cio.com/article/729692/10_Hot_Cloud_Startups_to_Watch. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
7. ↑ Williams, Alex (2 April 2013). "Nearly Two Years Later, Nebula Launches A Mainframe Style "Cloud Computer" Built On OpenStack". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/02/nebula-launches-a-much-hyped-mainframe-style-cloud-computer-built-on-openstack/. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
8. ↑ Ben Kepes (April 1, 2015). "OpenStack Carnage--Nebula Shuts Down". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/04/01/openstack-carnage-nebula-shuts-down/. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
9. ↑ "OpenStack hardware startup Nebula shuts down". Venture Beat. April 1, 2015. https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/01/openstack-hardware-startup-nebula-shuts-down/. Retrieved September 4, 2016.

## External links

* Nebula website

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