Some exciting news to share ‒ Gartner has named us a Cool Vendor in Cloud Infrastructure 2018*. The designation for 2018 went to four companies behind a key innovation enabling cloud native infrastructure. We’re honored to be recognized in the report — you can read the report to see what Gartner has to say about Heptio, Kubernetes and more.
When Joe and I started Heptio 19 months ago, we were committed to keeping Kubernetes open. We have always believed it is the best way to help companies move from legacy to cloud native, and to avoid vendor lock-in to any one platform or distribution. We certainly thought open by design was the “cool” path to take and each customer win, each collaboration with AWS and Azure, and now this newest accolade, has validated our thesis.
As we continue growing, we intend to join the ranks of companies that have risen from coolness to greatness by leveraging our unique strengths:
Community focus. We are committed to helping customers unlock the full potential of upstream Kubernetes and avoid the lock-in of legacy distributions. Our engineers and evangelists use projects, webinars, conference sessions and Heptio branded workshops to bring their industry leading knowledge to the larger open source community.
Business model innovation. Many companies have tried to monetize open source and most have struggled. We are innovating the business model itself with HKS, a combination of products, services and support that make it easier for organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes so that they can develop software far more efficiently.
Culture. We understand that to build innovative products for the long-term, we have to build an exceptional culture. That’s why we prioritize diversity in hiring and equity in compensation. As our headcount ticks up, we use weekly all-company emails, bi-weekly all-hands, semi-annual team off-sites and team building events to create an uncommon degree of transparency.
We think that’s pretty cool. To the next milestone!
*Gartner, Cool Vendors in Cloud Infrastructure, Philip Dawson, Arun Chandrasekaran, Julia Palmer, 9 May 2018.
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