Acquia was founded by Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the Drupal project, and Jay Batson, previously founder and CEO of Pingtel. Their investors include North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

The use of the hosting services provided by ACQUIA will allow P.A.U. Education to complete the features and capabilities of its main portals with a wide range of tools and funcionalities related to anti-spam mechanisms, enhanced performance, stronger search engine, enhanced quality control processes, etc.

The first portal migrated to ACQUIA cloud servers is ePractice.eu. P.A.U. Education in consortium with ATOS, is responsible for the technical maintenance of this plaftorm. Additionally, the website was upgraded at the beginning of Feburary 2012 to offer a better accessibility to its users.