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Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Redmond, Washington, Cary, North Carolina, and an engineering office in Cluj, Romania. In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash ($14.25 per share). The acquisition closed on September 21, 2007.〔(HP Closes Opsware Acquisition news release )〕 ==History== The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded on September 9, 1999 (i.e., 9/9/99) by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee as a managed services provider.〔("The Case for the Fat Start-Up." Wall St. Journal's All Things Digital: 3/17, Ben Horowitz. ) 〕 The company was one of the first to offer software as a service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model.〔(Computeractive.co.uk )〕 According to ''Wired Magazine'', Loudcloud was one of the first vendors to talk about cloud computing and Software as a Service.〔(Wired Magazine. "Crank it up." David Sheff. 2000-08 )〕 In June 2000, Loudcloud raised $120 million, in what was at the time the largest second round of funding. This was shortly followed by a $100 million raise by one of its competitors, Totality Corporation (at the time known as MimEcom).〔(San Francisco Business Times. "Net startup MimEcom.com bags $100M" Todd Stein. 2000-07-30 )〕 After selling the operations side of the business to EDS in the summer of 2002, Loudcloud became Opsware and went to market as a technology company, offering the software that had been developed internally to support customer systems via automated server life-cycle management. In 2004, Opsware acquired asset management systems provider Tangram Enterprise Solutions,〔(Business Wire. Opsware Inc. Completes Acquisition of Tangram Enterprise Solutions; Integration of Products Furthers Opsware's Lead in Automation and Utility Computing )〕 and in February 2005 acquired network device configuration management vendor Rendition Networks.〔(Business Wire. Opsware Completes Rendition Acquisition, Furthering Leadership in Rapidly Growing IT Automation Market. Retrieved 2010-02-27. )〕 In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath for its Data Center Automation (DCA) product offering to add provisioning of storage components.〔(Business Wire. Opsware Completes Acquisition of Creekpath Systems; Acquisition Provides Foundation Technology. Retrieved 2010-02-27. )〕 In April 2007 Opsware acquired Seattle-based iConclude and its run-book automation software in order to integrate datacenter management from end-to-end.〔(Northwest Innovation. iConclude Acquisition Completes. Retrieved 2010-02-27. )〕 In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash ($14.25 per share), sixteen times revenues. It was HP's third largest acquisition at the time behind Compaq and Mercury Interactive.〔(China Martens, IDG News Service. HP Buying Opsware in $1.6 Billion Deal. PC World )〕 HP now markets Opsware products and software as a service solutions as part of the HP Software Division.〔(HP Data Center Automation Center product pages )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Opsware」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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