Solomon Hykes
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| Industry | Computer software |
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| Predecessor | dotCloud, Inc |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
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Key people
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Solomon Hykes, Ben Golub |
| Products | Docker |
| Website | www |
Docker, Inc is the company behind development of Docker software, an open-source project that automates the deployment of code inside software containers. Docker, Inc had over 120 employees in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California
The company was founded as dotCloud, Inc. in 2010 by Solomon Hykes. In July, 2013, Benjamin Golub (formerly of Plaxo and Gluster) became chief executive.
On September 19, 2013, dotCloud and Red Hat announced an alliance. On October 29, 2013 dotCloud, Inc was renamed to Docker, Inc.
On July 23, 2014, Docker acquired two-person startup Orchard. On August 4, 2014 the dotCloud technology and brand was sold to cloudControl. Four person company Koality was acquired on October 7, 2014. On October 15, 2014 Microsoft announced a partnership, and its services were announced for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) on November 13, 2014.
Docker was estimated to be valued at over $1 billion, making it what is called a "unicorn company", after a $95 million fundraising round in April 2015.
In April 2014, it was revealed that the C.I.A.'s investment arm In-Q-Tel was a large investor in Docker. Docker has yet to respond to any questions about the nature of the investment and if any adulteration to the final product was requested by the spy agency and if so, what requests were met.
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