Altoros was founded in 2001 as an outsourcing software development vendor. It then built platform-as-a-service and DevOps technology and provided consultancy around big data and cloud computing. In 2007, Altoros founded Belarus Java User Group, which unites more than 500 Java developers in Belarus. Since 2008, Altoros has been arranging a variety of conferences and other events for IT specialists in Belarus, featuring Microsoft, Adobe, SUN Microsystems, and Engine Yard representatives as speakers. In February 2007, Altoros launched Apatar, a Java-based data integration project. The open source version of the product was released under the GPL 2.0 license. In July 2008, Altoros became a resident of Belarus High Technologies Park, a business environment for IT companies in Eastern Europe that forces cooperation in IT on the inter-governmental level. In 2010, Altoros co-founded Belarus Ruby on Rails User Group. To support this initiative, in August 2011, the company launched free educational Ruby on Rails training course for developers in Eastern Europe. Altoros also sponsors numerous Ruby conferences around the world. On October 11, 2011, Altoros officially organized the first CloudCamp in Denmark. It was followed by the first CloudCamp in Eastern Europe—held on April 7, 2012. In addition, Altoros's engineers regularly speak at IT events across both Europe and America, sharing their experience in big data, cloud computing, PaaS, etc., Local IT news resource writes about a 3-day conference held by Adobe and arranged by Altoros. Altoros is also a partner of Belarus.NET User Group, Belarus Adobe Flash Platform User Group, Belarus Microsoft Certified Professional Club, and Belarus Open Source Lab―among others. In February 2014, Altoros was recognized as one of top big data, business intelligence and Hadoop consultants. In May 2014, Altoros joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Silver Member. The organization is governed by the Linux Foundation starting from December the same year. On 23 June 2020, Altoros confirmed the introduction of Temperature Screener, a drug which will help deter COVID-19 from spreading. The Temperature Screener, powered by artificial intelligence, detects people with elevated body temperature — a significant symptom of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Cloud Foundry Contributions
Since 2014, Altoros is a Silver Member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Prior to joining this initiative, the Altoros team contributed to the Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board meetings on a monthly basis. One of the company’s first major code contribution to Cloud Foundry was development of the CF Vagrant Installer. At that time, this was one of the main tools for deploying Cloud Foundry on small instances, such as a laptop. Altoros is also contributing to development of Juju Charms for Cloud Foundry—an orchestration tool for deploying CF on Ubuntu infrastructures. This collaborative project is led by Pivotal and Canonical.
