Pivotal is #7 in Top 10 Private Cloud platforms

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#7 in Top 10 Private Cloud platforms

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The best alternatives to Pivotal are: Cloud Foundry, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure

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2019. VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition



VMware has successfully completed the $2.7 billion acquisition of Pivotal, a private cloud platform. This acquisition serves as another crucial step for VMware as it strives to transition from solely a virtual machine company to a cloud-native provider capable of managing infrastructure across various environments. This addition aligns with VMware's recent acquisitions of Heptio and Bitnami, further reinforcing its strategic vision. The ultimate goal is to seamlessly integrate these developments into VMware Tanzu, a comprehensive management platform designed to unify Kubernetes containers and VMware virtual machines.

2014. Pivotal brings its cloud services to Mobile



Pivotal, the enterprise cloud platform, is introducing new services specifically tailored for mobile development, which complement the company's previously announced data services. The newly launched CF Mobile Service encompasses push notifications, an API gateway, and data-sync services. This service also provides IT departments with the ability to establish distinct policies and service level agreements to ensure that data remains within the enterprise's control. Pivotal CF is built upon the Cloud Foundry PaaS, which is an open-source platform. As a result, Pivotal CF supports a wide array of open-source tools, including various databases such as MongoDB, Riak, Apache Cassandra, and the Neo4j graph database, reflecting its rich heritage.


2014. GE becomes Big Data provider



In the previous year, General Electric (GE) embarked on a significant investment of $105 million in the Big Data platform known as Pivotal. Currently, GE is actively implementing the powerful big data analytics capabilities provided by Pivotal, both internally and for customers who purchase its jet engines. To establish its analytics infrastructure, GE utilized Pivotal's Big Data Suite in conjunction with EMC's appliances, initially focusing on its aviation group. Within a span of 90 days, GE successfully established this capability and expanded its usage to 25 airline customers, granting them access to extensive data and analytics resources. Through the aggregation of data from approximately 15,000 flights, GE acquired 14 GB of information per flight, which could be efficiently analyzed within a reasonable timeframe. By employing traditional methods, processing the required data to identify a maintenance issue would have taken approximately 30 days. However, with the integration of Pivotal's technology, GE can now conduct substantial analytical operations in just 20 minutes.


2014. Pivotal adds new enterprise features to its PaaS platform



Pivotal, the provider of a Cloud Foundry-based PaaS platform, is enhancing its features to cater to the needs of large corporations aiming to develop and deploy their own applications across multiple clouds. As an illustration, Pivotal CF users now have the capability to deploy applications in dual availability zones across clouds, thereby increasing redundancy. Additionally, the dashboards have been revamped to display real-time application status. Pivotal CF is an integral part of Pivotal's broader strategy, which encompasses various technologies contributed by its parent companies, EMC and VMware. These technologies encompass EMC's Greenplum big data analytics, Pivotal Labs' agile development, Cetas analytics, VMware's vFabric, and Cloud Foundry.