This year, we have begun to explore around the technical middle platform.
It is learned that Container Cloud PaaS service provider “Speed Cloud” has recently received tens of millions of B+ rounds of strategic financing. The investor is Amber Capital. Amber Capital focuses on cloud computing, information security and artificial intelligence, and cornerstone investors are convinced by listed companies. Deeply convinced as a product and service provider for enterprise-class security, cloud computing and IT infrastructure, Speed Cloud has become a convincing strategic partner.
Time-speed cloud CEO Huang Qigong said that this round of financing is mainly used for the research and innovation of core product technology, professional services and delivery capabilities, and channel partners’ ecological construction.
Cashspeed Cloud was established at the end of 2014. It is a container cloud PaaS service provider focusing on cloud native technology. It provides customers with product services such as container cloud, DevOps, and micro service management platform. It has been reported many times. CEO Huang Qigong introduced that since the establishment of the company, the product system of the speed cloud has been established in three stages:
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From 2015 to 2016, the speed cloud products are mainly based on container clouds based on Docker and Kubernetes. Based on the public cloud, the platform for building, integrating, deploying and running containerized applications is built for customers. The products of the period are mainly used in the development and operation and maintenance links to solve the problems of application packaging and compilation and deployment of different system environments. has been introduced many times, Docker is like a container, transport application to different system environments, previous operations staff To be deployed directly in a variety of environments, it is now possible to deploy in the “container” of Docker.
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Starting in 2017, container layout technologies, such as Kubernetes and Mesos, have matured, and the acceptance of medium and large-sized customers is getting higher and higher. It turned out to be containerization of business applications. This stage has been able to start. Micro-service, apply containers to production, and solve resource scheduling and scheduling problems. During this period, Speed Cloud focused on providing container cloud solutions for medium and large industry customers, including container cloud PaaS platform and micro service governance platform.
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In 2018, Yunyuansheng is getting more and more attention from enterprises. Containers, microservices, DevOps, and service grids are representative technologies of Yunyuan. Container Cloud PaaS becomes the main technology of the company’s native cloud technologyOne of the carriers.
Huang Qigong said that the landing of Yunyuan is a combination of technology and management thinking. For example, customers have become accustomed to thinking about how software development is suitable for cloud, and how to develop it on the container cloud PaaS. These require cloud-native applications to meet availability and scalability, with the ability to automate deployment and management, run anywhere, and increase the efficiency of R&D, testing, and release through continuous integration and continuous delivery tools. During this period, speed cloud focused on cloud iterative product evolution and market layout.
Developed to the present, the speed cloud product system mainly includes four parts: container cloud PaaS, DevOps, micro service governance platform, and technology related products.
Speed Cloud previously received nearly $100 million in round financing in January 2018, by TEDA Technology Investment led the investment, the original investor Langmafeng Venture Capital, Jiuhe Venture Capital, and Zhonghai Investment continued to follow. Huang Qigong said that since the last round of financing, the speed cloud has continued to invest in product research and development, and its functions have been continuously optimized. At the same time, it is continuously exploring around the digital transformation of enterprises and the strategy of China and Taiwan. At the market level, we have also continued to penetrate the vertical industry and began to build a channel partner ecosystem.
At the income level, the current speed cloud currently uses container cloud PaaS as the main source of income, accounting for about 70%, while the micro-service platform has the fastest growth, and the average customer unit price of enterprise procurement is more than one million. Huang Qigong said that Speed Cloud has already served more than 200 medium and large enterprises, focusing on energy, manufacturing, and operators. He also added that a clear trend is that the purchasing budget of medium and large-sized customers will continue to increase this year, and the repurchase rate will reach 80%. The company’s business growth for several consecutive years is about 2-3 times.
The development of the container cloud PaaS field has now developed into a diversified format with multiple companies and multi-party participation. The vendors have their own vertical areas and development space. In this track, the companies that continue to report are Caiyun, Lingque Cloud and Taoke Cloud.
Financing, except for Nearly 100 million B round of financing in January 2018, speed cloud also in December 2015 It has obtained tens of millions of A rounds of financing, the investor is Langmafeng Venture Capital; in February 2015, it received millions of angel rounds of financing, and the investors were Jiuhe Venture Capital and Zhonghai Investment.
Team, the speed cloud team comes from IBM, VMWare, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Meituan and other enterprises, and has rich experience in the development, operation and management of large-scale enterprise-level cloud platforms. Speed Cloud is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and a CNCF-certified Kubernetes Service Provider (KCSP). At present, the customers of Speed Cloud include many large enterprises such as State Grid, China Taiping Group, China Mobile, FAW Group, China Southern Airlines, Mercedes-Benz, Platinum Group and the world’s top 500 customers.
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