Jelastic is a cloud platform software vendor that provides multi-cloudplatform as a service-based on container technology for hosting service providers, ISVs, telecommunication companies, enterprises and developers. The platform is available as public cloud in over 70 data centers, as well as virtual and on-premises servers. Jelastic provides support ofJava,PHP,Ruby,Node.js,Python,Go environments, customDocker containers andKubernetes clusters.
Jelastic was co-founded byRuslan Synytsky, who also was CEO.[1] Jelastic was acquired by Virtuozzo in 2021.
Jelastic was founded in 2011 as a public cloud company. Initially, it was a Platform as a Service specifically targeted on Java hosting.[2][3] In 2012, the company received the Java Duke Choice Award.[4]
From 2013 to 2015, the platform added support forPHP, Ruby,Python, Node.js, .NET and support of Docker containers.[5] The latest runtime addition was in 2017 by integratingGoLang. In 2014, a private cloud solution[buzzword] was introduced, and by 2015, the platform could be used as a hybrid and multi-cloud service.
Jelastic closed a set of funding rounds fromRuna Capital, Almaz Capital Partners, Foresight Ventures and Maxfield Capital.[6][7][8]
In June 2013, Jelastic announced the hiring ofMark Zbikowski, a former Microsoft architect and contributor to MS-DOS, as a senior adviser.[9] In July 2013,Rasmus Lerdorf, creator ofPHP, joined Jelastic as a senior adviser.[10]
In November 2014, the creators of the Java programming languageJames Gosling andBruno Souza joined the Jelastic team.[11]
In 2018, Jelastic received Duke's Choice Award[12] for the second time.
In 2021,Virtuozzo acquired Jelastic technology and business to offer First Full-Stack Cloud Management Solution[buzzword] for Service Providers.[13][14] The acquisition comes after a 10-year partnership between the two companies.[15]
