Stevie(R) American Business Awards Recognizes Apce

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 4, 2017) - Apcera , the leader in enterprise container management, today announced that the 15th Annual American Business Awards program has recognized the company with two Silver Stevie American Business Awards. These awards are a testament to the company's continued growth and innovation, helping enterprise IT teams move faster, securely with a proven container management solution.

Stevie Awards won:

• Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year
• Information Technology Executive of the Year: Derek Collison

"We are honored to receive this recognition and accept the validation of our contributions in shaping the IT landscape," said Derek Collison, founder and CEO of Apcera. "Since inception, we've been passionate about enabling enterprises to quickly and easily embrace the IT infrastructure of the future. This accolade underscores our continued dedication to maintaining a product that gives IT leaders the sophisticated and turnkey solutions they need."

The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 190 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners. See the full list of this year's winners and finalists: www.StevieAwards.com/ABA  

An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Collison has held executive positions at TIBCO Software, Google, and VMware. As TIBCO's Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Collison led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. He co-founded the AJAX APIs group at Google and went on to VMware to design and architect the industry's first open PaaS, Cloud Foundry. Collison is now placing his bets on container management with Apcera.

The Apcera Platform is a flexible, enterprise-grade container management platform that can deploy, orchestrate and govern cloud-native and legacy applications across on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments. Complete out of the box, Apcera provides container workflow, orchestration, scheduling, storage, networking, plus a container engine, delivering a complete, enterprise-ready solution for businesses. With strong capabilities around containerizing legacy applications and workloads, Apcera gives enterprises investment protection while delivering industry-leading agility and time-to-value, all with full security and control. 

"Each year the judges find the quality and variety of the nominations to be greater than the year before," said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. "The 2017 competition was intense and every organization that has won should be proud."

About Apcera Apcera is the market leading enterprise-grade container management platform -- driven by security and policy -- that gives IT leaders the confidence and control to drive innovation and move faster, securely. Built for cloud-native as well as legacy applications, Apcera lets IT teams containerize, deploy, orchestrate and govern a vast range of workloads across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Fully integrated and completely turnkey, only Apcera offers industry-leading agility and time-to-value without sacrificing security or control. 

Apcera enables key enterprise use cases including deploying Docker and other cloud-native workloads in production securely and at scale, legacy application modernization and hybrid cloud mobility. Global 2000 companies use Apcera to lower CapEx and OpEx, improve time to market and reduce risk. 

Apcera is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://www.apcera.com , read the company's blog or follow on Twitter: @apcera