Swiss Start-up Exoscale Acquires German PaaS Provider cloudControl

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15.04.2016

Exoscale, the Lausanne-based cloud hosting provider, announces the acquisition of the Berlin-based cloudControl. The cloudControl team, technology and brand will be merged with Exoscale to build a richer range of cloud services for SaaS operators.  Acquired assets include the brand and intellectual property rights.

Exoscale is a European infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider who recently announced a strategic investment by Swisscom Ventures to broaden its product portfolio and expansion to more countries. The company provides public cloud services from two data-center locations in Switzerland. It is focused on high performance cloud services that combine tailor made features for developers with strict Swiss privacy and highly competitive pricing. This year Exoscale is embarking on an expansion that will cement its position as the leading European public cloud provider.

Following these expansion plans, Exoscale has acquired the Berlin based company, cloudControl, which pioneered public platform as a service (PaaS) in Europe. The two companies were already collaborating on a partnership basis. “We’ve been partners of cloudControl for over two years now and have always been very impressed with their technology and expertise. With these credentials, cloudControl is a perfect fit for Exoscale to continue its ambitious growth strategy”, explains Antoine Coetsier, cofounder and CEO of Exoscale.

“Working with Exoscale in the previous partnership showed that we share the same values and strategy for giving SaaS providers the easiest and most reliable way to benefit from containers in production”, says Philipp Strube, co-founders and CEO of cloudControl. “We see an exciting future as part of Exoscale where we can build a full stack, from hardware to software, that will give SaaS providers a European partner who can deliver technically excellent services, competitive pricing and wider range of useful cases, while meeting the strictest privacy requirements”, adds Strube. Strube will join Exoscale as managing director for Germany.

Bringing cloudControl into the Exoscale family is an important part of providing a reliable and long-term partnership to Europe's SaaS providers. “We will extend our core compute and storage offering to include all major building blocks of modern cloud native applications,” says Pierre Yves Ritschard, cofounder and CTO of Exoscale.

(RAN)

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