YellowDog

YellowDog Limited is a UK technology company, headquartered in Bristol.  YellowDog operates a multi-cloud management solution that identifies the best source of compute for every workload.  Using predictive scheduling and orchestration, it determines, in real-time, what compute is available and which job it suits to make sure that deadlines and budgets are met.  

The company vision is:

"Help people, businesses and technology reach their full potential through intelligently orchestrating the world’s computing power." 

History 
YellowDog was founded by Gareth Williams in January 2015.  It was incorporated as YellowDog Limited in January 2015 with its first render application launched for sale in November 2015.  It launched its second application: batch processing for Financial Services in March 2018 at Finovate Europe 2018.  Since then, YellowDog technology is used in multiple industries and global markets. 

Originally envisioned as a peer to peer power sharing network, YellowDog soon changed its power source from private providers to public cloud infrastructure and idle capacity in a handful of company data centers.  It uses this underutilised power to give businesses and enterprise the processing power they need to complete their complex workloads. 

YellowDog received crowdfunding from Seedrs in 2015 and subsequent investment through private equity networks and VC investment. 

Solutions

Provision and manage compute 

Including virtual machines, storage, networks and containers in private and public clouds and on-premise. 

'Best source of compute' 
Determines the best resources for managing workloads by understanding price, performance and availability of compute, data, and network. 

Co-ordinate compute workloads 
Managing task allocation and tracking, resource co-ordination, data transport, data synchronisation, task inputs and outputs. 

Provide infrastructure performance stability 
API access to allow for integration with existing dashboards or schedulers.  Providing: metrics and logging with the option of using YellowDog dashboards. 

Predicted task and job completion time 
This is based on YellowDog machine learning training models and algorithms.  This currently requires YellowDog consultancy to define and train machine learning models. 

Headquarters 
YellowDog's headquarters are located in Bristol, UK at Runway East, located on Bristol Bridge. 

Runway East is a company that's dedicated to providing every high-growth company with the best office spaces in the world.  With over 2,200 members, spread across 5 locations, Runway East encourage collaboration and community. 

Awards 

 Winner: UBS Future of Finance Challenge - People's Choice Award
Winner: Escape the City - Top 100 Employer in the UK
Winner: TechSpark UK - Data Data Data Award 2019
Winner: TechSpark UK - Founder of the Year 2019
Winner: Business Innovation at Best New Business Awards 2018
Winner: Bristol Life award for Tech Innovation 2017
Second Place: National Technology Awards: Startup Tech company of the year 2018
Highly Commended: Institute of Directors: Director of the year startup category 2018
Winner: Startup of the Year 2016
 Winner: Oracle Excellence in Innovation Award 2016
 Winner: Oracle Disruptive Technology Award 2016
Finalist: Edge Awards Outstanding New Business Idea 2016
Finalist Startup World Cup 2016
Runner Up: Tech Trailblazers Cloud Trailblazer 2016

References

External links 
 

Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Cloud computing