Mesosphere, Inc.

Mesosphere is an American technology company based in San Francisco, California which develops software for data centers based on Apache Mesos.[1] It calls its product Datacenter Operating System.

History

Mesosphere was established in 2013 by Benjamin Hindman, Tobias Knaup[2] and Florian Leibert. The Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) runs on servers in a physical or cloud computing data center, on top of a Linux distribution. In June 2014 the company announced $10.5 million of venture capital investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Fuel Capital.[3] A second round of $36 million investment was announced in December 2014, led by Khosla Ventures.[4][5]

In August 2015, it was reported that Microsoft was in talks to acquire Mesophere. Valuations ranged from $150 million up to $1 billion, but nothing was officially disclosed.[6][7][8]

Another investment round of $73.5 million in March 2016 was led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and included Microsoft.[9][10][11][12]

The company was mentioned by marketing firm Gartner in 2016.[13] It was listed by TechCrunch in 2016 for companies having valuation ranging in between $500 million to $1 billion.[14] It had a 2016 contract with the United States government, and reportedly an investment from In-Q-Tel, controlled by the US Central Intelligence Agency.[15][16]

On 19 April 2016, Mesosphere open-sourced Datacenter Operating System.[17] At the launch, Autodesk announced that they were able to reduce running AWS instances by 66% using DC/OS.[18]

On May 7, 2018, the company announced that it had accumulated $125 million for their Series D round for its hybrid cloud platform.[19]

As of August 05, 2019, Mesosphere Inc. has been renamed to D2iQ.[20]

Mesosphere DC/OS
Datacenter Operating System
Developer(s)Mesosphere
Stable release
2.1.0 / 10 June 2020 (2020-06-10)
Written inC++, JavaScript, Python
TypeCluster management software
LicenseApache License 2.0[21][22]
Websitedcos.io

Mesosphere DC/OS (short for Datacenter Operating System), is an open-source, distributed operating system built with Apache Mesos.[23] It was developed by Mesosphere and announced in April 2016.[17] The difference between DC/OS and other cluster managers is the ability to provide dedicated container scheduling.[24] The latest release, DC/OS 2.1.0, was on June 10, 2020.

Origins

The term datacenter operating system was promoted in the paper The Datacenter Needs an Operating System,[25] published at the University of California, Berkeley. In the paper Zaharia et al. describe four areas of functionality that a datacenter OS should provide:

  1. Resource sharing
  2. Data sharing
  3. Programming abstractions
  4. Debugging and monitoring

The paper promoted the Mesos project for resource sharing among frameworks on a shared compute cluster.

Architecture

Datacenter Operating System categorizes components as being in user space or kernel space.[26] Kernel space includes the Mesos master and agents while user space includes various system components of Datacenter Operating System. These components include (among others):[27]

References
  1. "Google Teams Up with Startup Mesosphere for Cloud Platform". Zacks Equity Research blog. August 19, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  2. Matt Weinberger (June 10, 2015). "These guys quit Airbnb and Twitter to help other startups grow much faster". Business Insider. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  3. Derrick Harris (Jun 9, 2014). "Mesosphere raises $10.5M to push virtualization à la Google". GigaOm. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  4. "Mesosphere raises $36m for data center operating system". Red Herring. December 8, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  5. Carney, Michael. "Vinod Khosla on the future of the data center and Mesosphere's giant $36M round". Pando.com.
  6. Alex Konrad (August 18, 2015). "Why Microsoft Could Reportedly Want To Buy Cloud Startup Mesosphere Even At $1 Billion". Forbes. Archived from the original on August 19, 2015. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  7. Zacks Equity Research (August 20, 2015). "Is Microsoft Acquiring Cloud Computing Startup Mesosphere?". NASDAQ. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  8. Matt Weinberger (March 24, 2016). "Microsoft is investing millions in a $1 billion startup that rejected its acquisition offer". Business Insider. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  9. Jonathan Vanian (March 24, 2016). "Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft Just Invested Millions In This Hot Startup". Fortune. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  10. Hall, Gina. "Mesosphere raises $73.5M from investors including HP, Microsoft". BizJournals.
  11. Lardinois, Frederic. "Mesosphere raises $73.5M Series C led by HPE, with Microsoft as strategic investor". Techcrunch.
  12. Lynley, Matthew. "Mesosphere's Valuation Could Hit Around $600M In Latest Financing Round". Techcrunch.
  13. "Mesosphere Named a "Cool Vendor" in Cloud Infrastructure by Gartner". Press release. May 5, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  14. "Emerging Unicorns - Unicorn Leaderboard". Crunchbase.
  15. Matt Weinberger (April 16, 2016). "The CIA's Venture Capital Arm Invests in Two Cloud-Computing Companies". Business Insider. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  16. "Recipient Profile: Mesophere, Inc". USA Spending. US Government. 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  17. Lardinois, Frederic. "Mesosphere open sources its data center OS". Techcrunch. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  18. Voorhees, Stephen. "Autodesk is Forging Ahead with Mesos, Containers and DC/OS". autodesk.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  19. Editorial, Reuters. "BRIEF-Mesosphere Raises $125 Mln Series D Financing To Accelerate..." U.S. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  20. "Mesosphere is now D2iQ". Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  21. "Terms of Service". dcos.io. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  22. "dcos/LICENSE at master". github.com. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  23. "DC/OS". dcos.io. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  24. Gunaratne, Imesh (2016-09-04). "Is Mesos DC/OS really a Data Center Operating System?". Medium. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  25. Zaharia, Hindman, Konwinski, Ghodski, Joseph, Katz, Shenker, Stoica. "The Datacenter Needs an Operating System". AMPLab, UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley. Retrieved 10 May 2016.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  26. "The Architecture of DC/OS". dcos.io. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  27. "An Introduction to DC/OS Components". dcos.io. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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