Terracotta, Inc. delivers plug–in capacity and availability for Java applications at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta simplifies development, deployment, testing, and management by moving clustering and caching services to the JVM instead of the application. With Terracotta, Java applications are highly available, have linear scale, and improved performance. Terracotta customers include industry leaders in the financial services and telecom sectors. Founded in 2003, Terracotta is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco.