CloudControl#dotCloud

cloudControl was founded in January 2009 by Philipp Strube, Tobias Wilken and Thomas Ruland in Bonn, Germany. The company moved to the Berlin, Germany area in early 2010 after getting business angel investor funding. Production support for the PHP programming language was announced in October 2010. The company raised venture capital funding August 2011. As a result of this, support for Java, Python and Ruby programming languages started in October 2012.

In August 2014 it acquired the dotCloud brand from American company Docker, Inc.{{cite web |url= https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/docker-sells-dotcloud-to-cloudcontrol-to-focus-on-core-container-business/ |title= Docker Sells dotCloud to cloudControl To Focus On Core Container Business |author= Ron Miller |work= Tech Crunch |date= August 4, 2014 |access-date= April 29, 2017 }}

dotCloud was a platform as a service company using the open-source Docker software;{{Cite web |title= Developer Cloud Platform |work= Web site |url= https://www.dotcloud.com/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 21, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160121181923/https://www.dotcloud.com/ |access-date= June 17, 2017 }} it was the original developer of Docker.{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/docker-sells-dotcloud-to-cloudcontrol-to-focus-on-core-container-business/|title=Docker Sells dotCloud to cloudControl To Focus On Core Container Business|date=4 August 2014|publisher=AOL|work=TechCrunch}}{{cite web|url=http://maureenogara.sys-con.com/node/2747331|title=Ben Golub, Who Sold Gluster to Red Hat, Now Running dotCloud - Maureen O'Gara|publisher=|access-date=2018-05-16|archive-date=2019-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913100835/http://maureenogara.sys-con.com/node/2747331|url-status=dead}}

In January 2016 the company sent out a letter to its customers that it was shutting down.

{{blockquote|Unfortunately I have to inform you, that cloudControl our German parent company has filed for bankruptcy. Due to this, dotCloud will be {{sic|shu|tdown|nolink=y}} on February 29, 2016. To avoid service disruption of your apps hosted on dotCloud or prevent data loss, you are required to migrate your applications.{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/22/dotcloud-the-cloud-service-that-gave-birth-to-docker-is-shutting-down-on-february-29/|title=DotCloud, the cloud service that gave birth to Docker, is shutting down on February 29 - VentureBeat - Cloud - by Jordan Novet|work=VentureBeat}}}}

cloudControl went bankrupt in December 2015 and was acquired by Exoscale in March 2016.{{Cite web |title=cloudControl joins exoscale |date= April 11, 2016|website=Exoscale |url=https://www.exoscale.ch/syslog/2016/04/11/cloudcontrol-joins-exoscale/}}{{Cite twitter |user=cloudcontrolled |number=699530071481196544 |date= February 16, 2016 |title=Unfortunately we have to {{sic|shu|tdown|nolink=y}} the cloudControl PaaS by February 29, 2016.}}{{Cite web |title=dotCloud dotGone: Ex-Docker PaaS passes away amid bankruptcy |date= January 22, 2016|website=The Register |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/22/dotcloud_shutdown/ }}

The dotCloud service was shut down the same time.{{Cite news |title= DotCloud, the cloud service that gave birth to Docker, is shutting down on February 29 |author= Jordan Novet |date= January 22, 2016 |work= Venture Beat |url= https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/22/dotcloud-the-cloud-service-that-gave-birth-to-docker-is-shutting-down-on-february-29/ |access-date= June 17, 2017 }}

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• {{Citation | url = https://www.cloudcontrol.com/ | title = cloudControl | type = official site | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160129220716/https://www.cloudcontrol.com/ | archive-date = 2016-01-29 | access-date = 2012-12-07 }}.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517031011/https://www.dotcloud.com/ dotCloud website (archived)]

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