D2iQ, Inc.

D2iQ is an American technology company based in San Francisco, California which develops software that simplifies Kubernetes lifecycle management, deployment to hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments and enables advanced application use cases. Its flagship product is called the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP).

D2iQ, Inc.
FormerlyMesosphere
IndustrySoftware
Founded2013 in San Francisco, CA
FounderTobi Knaup

Benjamin Hindman

Florian Leibert
ProductsD2iQ Kubernetes Platform
Konvoy
Kommander
Kaptain
Websited2iq.com

History

The company, initially named Mesosphere, was established in 2013 by Benjamin Hindman, Tobias Knaup[1] and Florian Leibert. In June 2014 the company announced $10.5 million of venture capital investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Fuel Capital.[2] A second round of $36 million investment was announced in December 2014, led by Khosla Ventures.[3][4]

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.[5][6][7]

Another investment round of $73.5 million in March 2016 was led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and included Microsoft.[8][9][10][11]

The company was mentioned by marketing firm Gartner in 2016.[12] It was listed by TechCrunch in 2016 for companies having valuation ranging in between $500 million to $1 billion.[13] 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.[14][15]

On April 19, 2016, Mesosphere open-sourced Datacenter Operating System.[16] At the launch, Autodesk announced that they were able to reduce running AWS instances by 66% using DC/OS.[17]

On May 7, 2018, the company announced a $125 million Series D round of investment.[18]

As of August 5, 2019, Mesosphere Inc. was renamed D2iQ.[19]

On September 20, 2021, D2iQ launched the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) V2 and Kaptain AI/ML.[20]

Mesosphere DC/OS
Datacenter Operating System
Developer(s)D2iQ
Stable release
2.2.1 / November 5, 2020 (2020-11-05)
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 (before the company renamed) and announced in April 2016.[16] The difference between DC/OS and other cluster managers is the ability to provide dedicated container scheduling. The latest release, DC/OS 2.2.1, was on November 5, 2020. DC/OS was replaced with the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform in 2020.

Origins

The term datacenter operating system was promoted in the paper The Datacenter Needs an Operating System,[24] 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.

References
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  10. Lardinois, Frederic. "Mesosphere raises $73.5M Series C led by HPE, with Microsoft as strategic investor". Techcrunch.
  11. Lynley, Matthew. "Mesosphere's Valuation Could Hit Around $600M In Latest Financing Round". Techcrunch.
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  17. Voorhees, Stephen. "Autodesk is Forging Ahead with Mesos, Containers and DC/OS". autodesk.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  18. "BRIEF-Mesosphere Raises $125 Mln Series D Financing To Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Transformation". Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  19. Fey, Mike. "Mesosphere is now D2iQ" (Press release). Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  20. "Introducing The Next Generation of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP): DKP 2.0 | D2iQ". d2iq.com. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  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. Zaharia, Hindman, Konwinski, Ghodski, Joseph, Katz, Shenker, Stoica. "The Datacenter Needs an Operating System". AMPLab, UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley. Retrieved 10 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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