The employee-owned company, founded in 2005, helps clients manage and improve utilization of high-performance computing on internal grids, virtualized environments, and in the cloud. Its CycleCloud software suite is a cloud orchestration, provisioning, and data management platform for Big Compute, Big Data, and large technical computing applications running on any public, private, or internal environment. Cycle Computing's software leverages cloud resources to make computation in the cloud productive at any scale, by orchestrating workflows, managing data, balancing cloud options, and enabling users in a secure, controlled way. Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing in August 2017, combining Azure specialized Big Compute infrastructure with Cycle Computing's technology and experience to accelerate customers' movement to the cloud and take advantage of the most performant and compliant infrastructure available in the public cloud today.