Cirrascale Cloud Services

Cirrascale Cloud Services is a cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in San Diego, California. Its business is focused on supplying deep-learning infrastructure and related cloud services for technically demanding applications, including autonomous-vehicle development, medical imaging, and natural-language processing. The company traces its corporate history to Verari Technologies, which was established in 2010. Verari Technologies acquired the technology and product assets of Verari Systems and changed its name to Cirrascale Corporation in August 2010. This transition connected the company to an earlier generation of high-performance computing and specialized hardware while establishing Cirrascale as the successor operating identity. Cirrascale initially maintained a hardware-oriented business. In 2017, it sold that hardware business to BOXX Technologies. Following the transaction, the company changed its name from Cirrascale Corporation to Cirrascale Cloud Services, reflecting a shift away from direct hardware operations and toward cloud-based infrastructure and services. Later in 2017, Craftsman Capital Partners purchased Cirrascale Cloud Services. The company's present positioning is centered on infrastructure for machine-learning and deep-learning workloads rather than on consumer cloud computing. Its stated application areas include self-driving vehicles, where large-scale model training and simulation require substantial compute capacity; medical imaging, where artificial intelligence can support image analysis and clinical workflows; and natural-language processing, which depends on specialized computing for training and deploying language models. The available reference material does not identify a public stock listing, consumer-facing product portfolio, or independently reported financial results.

Cirrascale Cloud Services originated as Verari Technologies, a company founded in 2010. Verari Technologies acquired the technology and products of Verari Systems, then changed its name to Cirrascale Corporation in August 2010. The renaming established Cirrascale as the corporate identity for the acquired technology and product portfolio. For part of its early history, the company operated a hardware business. Its activities were associated with high-performance computing and infrastructure intended for technically intensive workloads. In 2017, Cirrascale Corporation sold that hardware business to BOXX Technologies. The divestiture marked a significant change in the company's business model and was followed by a corporate name change to Cirrascale Cloud Services. The new name emphasized cloud computing and services rather than the direct sale of hardware. Cirrascale's stated focus became deep-learning infrastructure solutions for specialized artificial-intelligence applications. These applications include self-driving vehicles, medical imaging, and natural-language processing. Such workloads typically require substantial computing resources for model training, experimentation, simulation, and deployment. Later in 2017, Craftsman Capital Partners purchased Cirrascale Cloud Services. The acquisition followed the hardware divestiture and completed a period of corporate transition involving the company's name, ownership, and strategic emphasis. The available reference material identifies David Driggers as chief executive officer and founder, Larry Weissman as chief financial officer, and Al Lucarelli as vice president of sales. It does not provide detailed dates for their appointments or describe additional changes in management. Cirrascale is therefore best understood as a specialized infrastructure and cloud-services provider rather than a general consumer cloud brand. Its documented scope is concentrated on compute-intensive artificial-intelligence use cases. Publicly available reference information does not establish a broad consumer product range, a public listing, detailed financial performance, or a separate portfolio of named products. Its documented corporate milestones are primarily the 2010 formation and acquisition-related transition, the August 2010 adoption of the Cirrascale name, the 2017 sale of the hardware business and move to the Cirrascale Cloud Services identity, and the later 2017 purchase by Craftsman Capital Partners.

• 2017

  Hardware business sold to BOXX Technologies

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  Cirrascale Corporation sells its hardware business to BOXX Technologies, separating that activity from the company's subsequent cloud-services focus.

• 2017

  Company adopts the Cirrascale Cloud Services name

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  Following the hardware divestiture, Cirrascale Corporation changes its name to Cirrascale Cloud Services.

• 2017

  Purchased by Craftsman Capital Partners

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  Craftsman Capital Partners acquires Cirrascale Cloud Services later in the year.

• 2010

  Verari Technologies is founded

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  Verari Technologies is established, beginning the corporate history that later leads to Cirrascale Cloud Services.

• 2010

  Verari Technologies acquires Verari Systems technology and products

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  The company acquires the technology and products of Verari Systems as part of its early corporate development.

• 2010

  Corporate name changes to Cirrascale Corporation

  [1]Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org

  In August, Verari Technologies adopts the Cirrascale Corporation name.

A specialized cloud and computing-infrastructure provider for enterprise and research workloads involving deep learning, artificial intelligence, and other high-performance applications.

• Artificial-intelligence infrastructure

  Deep-learning infrastructure solutions

  Cirrascale's documented core offering is infrastructure designed for deep-learning workloads. The available reference does not specify individual machine configurations, software platforms, service tiers, or pricing. The offering is described as supporting demanding applications such as autonomous-vehicle technology, medical imaging, and natural-language processing, where customers need substantial computing capacity for training, experimentation, and deployment.

• Cloud infrastructure services · 2017

  Cloud-computing services

  The Cirrascale Cloud Services identity reflects the company's post-2017 emphasis on cloud-based infrastructure rather than its former hardware business. Public reference material characterizes the company broadly as a cloud-computing services provider but does not enumerate named cloud products, geographic regions, technical specifications, or service-level commitments.

• 2017

  Shift from hardware operations to cloud servicesStrategy

  Background

  Cirrascale Corporation had operated a hardware business before selling it to BOXX Technologies in 2017.

  Action taken

  The company divested its hardware business and changed its name to Cirrascale Cloud Services, presenting itself as a cloud-computing and deep-learning infrastructure provider.

  Aftermath

  The company focused its documented business on infrastructure for artificial intelligence applications, including autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, and natural-language processing.

  Source

• 2017

  Sale of hardware business to BOXX TechnologiesM&A

  Background

  The transaction occurred during Cirrascale's broader repositioning away from direct hardware operations.

  Action taken

  Cirrascale Corporation sold its hardware business to BOXX Technologies.

  Aftermath

  The sale was followed by the adoption of the Cirrascale Cloud Services name.

  Source

• 2021.01.26

  Reported2021.01.26

  Graphcore and Cirrascale launch Graphcloud[2]Graphcore与Cirrascale联合发布Graphcloudfinance.sina.com.cn

  Graphcore and Cirrascale jointly launched Graphcloud, an IPU-POD cloud service that gives customers access to Graphcore IPU computing capacity.

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1. 1Cirrascale Cloud Servicesen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Graphcore与Cirrascale联合发布Graphcloudfinance.sina.com.cn