About Us
Abiquo delivers the industry’s most advanced Enterprise Cloud software solution, allowing customers to rapidly build and manage a fully automated and governed, self-service, multi-stack, multi-hypervisor, private, public or hybrid cloud from globally deployed resources.
Uniquely designed to address the needs of all major stakeholders, Abiquo’s award-winning solution completely informs and empowers application and development teams and provides unprecedented levels of visibility and control for IT Operations, while mitigating data security risks, ensuring corporate governance, and facilitating ground breaking levels of datacenter efficiency and cost reduction.
Named “Cool Vendor in Cloud Management 2011” by Gartner Research, and rated highest pure play vendor by Forrester Research in its 2011 Market Overview of Private Cloud Solutions, Abiquo’s customer base includes many Global 2000 enterprises, government contractors and leading MSPs. Abiquo is privately held, and operates from headquarters in Redwood City, California, offices in Europe and Asia Pacific, and through its extensive global partner network.
Founded in 2006, Abiquo is one of the original pioneers of Enterprise Cloud. This early start, and over 50 man-years of engineering effort, has allowed us to build the broadest and deepest solution available on the market today.
Designed from the ground-up as a strategic solution to meet the needs of enterprise customers, unlike other solutions, Abiquo was specifically architected to be hardware and hypervisor independent from the start - a tremendous advantage in today’s heterogeneous environments.
By focusing on the needs of all major stakeholders, and employing many break-through techniques to manage and secure the cloud, Abiquo delivers a unified solution which is truly greater than the sum of its component parts.
Abiquo’s mission is to deliver the richest and most flexible Enterprise Cloud technology to our customers, allowing them to attain the greatest levels of agility and cost-saving, through automation, management efficiency and unrivalled self-service. Operating across even the most complex new and existing enterprise environments, Abiquo allows security, compliance and governance concerns to be fully addressed. We strive to provide all customers with the highest levels of service, value and ROI, whatever the size of their installation.
With its solution deployed by customers across the globe, in a wide variety of industry sectors, Abiquo is among the fastest growing cloud companies.
Abiquo Milestones
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March 2006
Company formed and initial product development begins
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October 2007
Early prototype working
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January 2008
Company expands development team and opens new development center
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April 2009
First pre-release version issued to open-source community
Abiquo wins first Red Herring 100 award
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June 2009
Company begins working with major enterprises to gain early feedback
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November 2009
Pete Malcolm joins as CEO
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February 2010
Abiquo Raises $5M initial venture funding
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March 2010
New Headquarters opens in Redwood City, California
Enterprise Edition product formally announced
Platinum sponsorship of Cloud Computing Expo, NYC announced
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April 2010
Live demonstration of V2V conversion at Cloud Expo to rapturous applause
Enterprise Edition customer deployments begin
Wins AlwaysOn OnDemand Top100 Private Companies award
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August 2010
Named Top Ten Startup of 2010 by CRN/ChannelWeb
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October 2010
Significant customer momentum announced
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November 2010
Abiquo Raises $10M expansion funding from Balderton Capital
Former Business Objects Founder and CEO Bernard Liautaud joins Abiquo Board
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March 2011
Announces CTC Itochu as first Reseller in Japan
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April 2011
Gartner names Abiquo “Cool Vendor in Cloud Management”
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May 2011
Abiquo announces full Partner Program with first 10 partners
Rated highest pure play vendor in Forrester Market Report on Private Cloud
CEO Pete Malcolm named “Entrepreneur of the Year”
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June 2011
Abiquo wins “Best Cloud Management Solution” over VMware and HP at Cloud Computing World Series Awards
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July 2011
Abiquo announces tripling of 2011 business
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October 2011
Announces Matt McLaughlin as EVP, Global Field Operations
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November 2011
Abiquo opens new Asia Pacific Sales and Support office
Version 2.0 of the award winning Enterprise Cloud solution announced
