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| Company type | Now owned byOpenText |
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| Founded | September, 1999 (as Loudcloud, Inc.) |
| Founder | Ben Horowitz Marc Andreessen Tim Howes  |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California |
Key people | Marc Andreessen:Chairman and founder,[1] Ben Horowitz:CEO and founder,[1] Tim Howes: CTO and founder,[1] In Sik Rhee:COO and founder,[1] John O'Farrell:EVP |
| Products | Cloud and automation and IT service managementsoftware |
| Parent | Hewlett-Packard |
| Website | Micro Focus web page |
Opsware, Inc. was a software company based inSunnyvale, California, that offered products for server and network deviceprovisioning,configuration, andmanagement targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices inNew York City,Redmond, Washington,Cary, North Carolina, and an engineering office inCluj, Romania.
In July 2007,HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share). The acquisition closed on September 21, 2007.[2]
HP subsequently split intoHP Inc. andHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The latter included Opsware's products and services and, in 2017, the HPE Software business group spin-merged withMicro Focus. Micro Focus was acquired byOpenText in 2023.
The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded on September 9, 1999 (i.e., 9/9/99) byMarc Andreessen,Ben Horowitz,Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee as a managedservices provider.[3] The company was one of the first to offersoftware as a service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model.[4] According toWired, Loudcloud was one of the first vendors to talk aboutcloud computing and Software as a Service.[5]
In June 2000, Loudcloud raised $120 million, in what was at the time the largest second round of funding.[6] This was shortly followed by a $100 million raise by one of its competitors,Totality Corporation (at the time known as MimEcom).[7]
After selling the operations side of the business toEDS 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 acquiredasset management systems provider Tangram Enterprise Solutions,[8] and in February 2005 acquired network device configuration management vendor Rendition Networks.[9] In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath for its Data Center Automation (DCA) product offering to add provisioning of storage components.[10] In April 2007 Opsware acquired Seattle-based iConclude and its run-book automation software in order to integrate datacenter management from end-to-end.[11]
In July 2007,HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share), sixteen times revenues. It was HP's third largest acquisition at the time behindCompaq andMercury Interactive.[12] HP marketed Opsware products andsoftware as a service solutions as part of theHP Software Business Unit.[13]
In 2015, HP's Software business unit was spun off to become part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Two years later in 2017, HP Software merged with UK-based Micro Focus in a spin-merge. In 2023, OpenText acquired Micro Focus. All former Opsware tools are now grouped under the OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management suite.
Opsware had three main systems that it marketed. The Server Automation System (SAS) was designed to provide provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance reporting, andpatching ofWindows,Unix andLinux servers across thousands of servers. It is now sold as HP Server Automation software.[14] The Network Automation System (NAS) was designed to provide network device provisioning, policy enforcement, security lock-down, software management, and compliance reporting across thousands of devices from over 500 variants of device vendors, models, and OS versions. This product was alsoOEM'd byCisco Systems and was called the Cisco "Network Compliance Manager" (NCM). It is now sold as HP Network Automation software.[15] The third system marketed by Opsware was the Process Automation System (PAS), designed to provide run-book automation from former partner iConclude (who was acquired in March 2007). It is now sold as HP Operations Orchestration software.[16]
Opsware customers included its now parentHP,GE,EDS (whose acquisition was completed by HP August 26, 2008,[17] and is now calledHP Enterprise Services[18]), theFederal government of the United States and numerousFortune 500 companies who used the software to automate their IT infrastructure.
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