Jelastic was founded in 2011 as a public cloud company. Initially, it was a Platform as a Service specifically targeted on Java hosting. In 2012, the company received the Java Duke Choice Award. From 2013 to 2015, the platform added support for
PHP, Ruby,
Python, Node.js, .NET and support of Docker containers. The latest runtime addition was in 2017 by integrating
GoLang. In 2014, a private cloud solution was introduced, and by 2015, the platform could be used as a hybrid and multi-cloud service. Jelastic closed a set of funding rounds from
Runa Capital, Almaz Capital Partners, Foresight Ventures and Maxfield Capital. In June 2013, Jelastic announced the hiring of
Mark Zbikowski, a former Microsoft architect and contributor to MS-DOS, as a senior adviser. In July 2013,
Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of
PHP, joined Jelastic as a senior adviser. In November 2014, the creators of the Java programming language
James Gosling and
Bruno Souza joined the Jelastic team. In 2018, Jelastic received Duke's Choice Award for the second time. In 2021,
Virtuozzo acquired Jelastic technology and business to offer First Full-Stack Cloud Management Solution for Service Providers. The acquisition comes after a 10-year partnership between the two companies. ==Services==