H2020 grant to support development of hosting service
Platform.sh, a hosting and development service from Commerce Guys, has been awarded a grant from Horizon 2020.
The grant will allow Platform.sh to quickly grow the engineering teams in order to accelerate the development of an ambitious roadmap. This will include support for other mainstream development languages, as well as advancements on the Distributed Storage Grid, which will make it easy to share all forms of persistent data between cloud and local environments, and the firm’s innovative Multi Cloud capability, enabling deployments across cloud boundaries with seamless operations between multiple cloud providers and on-premises private infrastructures.
Commenting, Fred Plais, chief executive of Commerce Guys, said: “Our staff feels very proud to have been selected by the European Commission for this grant. We have had great customer feedback on our product, and that is our focus, but for engineers living on the bleeding edge, getting recognition, and support, in such a selective process, it’s a big thing. Platform.sh is well placed to provide global leadership in this second-generation micro-container-powered Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market, and we are made in Europe.”
Platform.sh is a second-generation PaaS, innovatively implemented around Linux containers. Over recent years, it has developed a breakthrough technology that provides development workflow optimisation and automated infrastructure management for web applications. The company currently has a strong focus on the PHP world, the product primarily used for prominent technologies such as Drupal, PHP Symfony, WordPress, Zend, Magento. This hybrid offering combines a global, seamlessly scalable, high availability hosting offering that can handle any amount of traffic with an unmatched continuous deployment workflow.
Throughout the website’s lifecycle, sites can be scaled and modified seamlessly without any interruption to the application, with web teams experiencing savings of up to 40% in effort expended developing new features and managing change.
Commerce Guys is the software vendor of Platform.sh and Drupal Commerce.
