CloudControl

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title: "CloudControl" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cloud-platforms"] description: "European cloud computing company" topic_path: "general/cloud-platforms" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudControl" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary European cloud computing company ::

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Field	Value
name	cloudControl GmbH
type	Private
foundation	January 2009
founder	Philipp Strube, Tobias Wilken, Thomas Ruland
location	Berlin, Germany
key_people	Günter Kraft, Peter Elsayeh, Thomas Ludwig, Philipp Möhring
industry	Cloud platform as a service
homepage
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| name = cloudControl GmbH | logo = | type = Private | foundation = January 2009 | founder = Philipp Strube, Tobias Wilken, Thomas Ruland | location = Berlin, Germany | key_people = Günter Kraft, Peter Elsayeh, Thomas Ludwig, Philipp Möhring | num_employees = | industry = Cloud platform as a service | products = | parent = | revenue = | homepage = }} cloudControl was a European company offering a platform as a service (PaaS) based in Berlin, Germany. Officially supported languages for development and deployment were Java, PHP, Python and Ruby via the open buildpack API originally developed by Heroku.

History

cloudControl was founded in January 2009 by Philipp Strube, Tobias Wilken and Thomas Ruland in Bonn, Germany. The company moved to the Berlin, Germany area in early 2010 after getting business angel investor funding. Production support for the PHP programming language was announced in October 2010. The company raised venture capital funding August 2011. As a result of this, support for Java, Python and Ruby programming languages started in October 2012.

dotCloud

In August 2014 it acquired the dotCloud brand from American company Docker, Inc. dotCloud was a platform as a service company using the open-source Docker software; it was the original developer of Docker.

In January 2016 the company sent out a letter to its customers that it was shutting down.

Bankruptcy

cloudControl went bankrupt in December 2015 and was acquired by Exoscale in March 2016. The dotCloud service was shut down the same time.

References

References

1. Ron Miller. (August 4, 2014). "Docker Sells dotCloud to cloudControl To Focus On Core Container Business". Tech Crunch.
2. "Developer Cloud Platform". Web site.
3. (4 August 2014). "Docker Sells dotCloud to cloudControl To Focus On Core Container Business". AOL.
4. "Ben Golub, Who Sold Gluster to Red Hat, Now Running dotCloud - Maureen O'Gara".
5. "DotCloud, the cloud service that gave birth to Docker, is shutting down on February 29 - VentureBeat - Cloud - by Jordan Novet". VentureBeat.
6. (April 11, 2016). "cloudControl joins exoscale".
7. (February 16, 2016). "Unfortunately we have to {{sic".
8. (January 22, 2016). "dotCloud dotGone: Ex-Docker PaaS passes away amid bankruptcy".
9. Jordan Novet. (January 22, 2016). "DotCloud, the cloud service that gave birth to Docker, is shutting down on February 29". Venture Beat.

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