HP Acquires Stackato Business from ActiveState to Enhance Helion Platform
HP has acquired ActiveState Software Stackato business, an enterprise-ready platform-as-a-service solution with Cloud Foundry at its core.
Vancouver-based ActiveState is a provider of open source software application development and management solutions.
Stackato’s open technology built on Cloud Foundry PaaS gives HP a more complete cloud offering, the company says. Stackato will enhance the HP Helion Development Platform by enabling customers to bring applications to market faster by reducing the amount of time spent on IT configuration.
“The Stackato PaaS solution strengthens the HP Helion portfolio and reinforces HP’s commitment to delivering customers open source solutions that help accelerate their transition to hybrid clouds,” said Bill Hilf, Senior Vice President, Product and Service Management, HP Cloud. “The acquisition reinforces HP’s focus on driving Cloud Foundry as the open standard cloud native application platform.”
After the transaction closes, ActiveState’s Stackato business will become part of HP Cloud.
