Docker, Inc.
Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers. Major products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows and Mac to manage containers. History. The company was founded as dotCloud in 2008 by Kamel Founadi, Solomon Hykes, and Sebastien Pahl in Paris, and incorporated in the United States in 2010. In July, 2013, Benjamin Golub (formerly of Plaxo and Gluster) became chief executive. On September 19, 2013, dotCloud and Red Hat announced  an alliance to integrate Docker with OpenShift Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. On October 29, 2013, dotCloud was renamed Docker. On July 23, 2014, Docker acquired two-person startup Orchard. On August 4, 2014 the dotCloud technology and brand was sold to cloudControl. Four person company Koality was acquired on October 7, 2014. On October 15, 2014 Microsoft announced a partnership, and its services were announced for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) on November 13, 2014. Docker was estimated to be valued at over $1 billion, making it what is called a "unicorn company