Qumranet
Qumranet, Inc. was an enterprise software company offering a desktop virtualization platform based on hosted desktops in Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) on servers, linked with their SPICE protocol. The company was also the creator, maintainer and global sponsor of the KVM open source hypervisor.
History[edit]
The company was founded in 2005 by CEO Benny Schnaider, with Rami Tamir as president, Moshe Bar as CTO, and chairman Dr. Giora Yaron.[1] Qumranet had raised $20 million in two financing rounds from its founders, Norwest Venture Partners, Cisco Systems, and Sequoia Capital, in addition to investment by the rounding partners.[1]
The company's first product, named "Solid ICE", hosted Windows and Linux desktops on central servers located in a data center.[2]
The Ra'anana-based company developed a virtualization technology for IT data centers.[1][3]
From a very low-profile Israeli startup the company made waves with the rapid acceptance of KVM into the Linux kernel, and their Solid ICE desktop virtualization platform has received serious attention.[4][5][6][7]
Qumranet was on the Gartner Group's 2008 list of "Cool Vendors," an award given to small companies with advanced technology.[8]
On September 4, 2008, Qumranet was acquired by Red Hat, Inc. for $107 million.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Key executives[edit]
- Benny Schnaider, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
- Rami Tamir, Co-Founder, President and Director
- Moshe Bar Ph.D. Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
- Giora Yaron Ph.D, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board[15]
- Shmil Levy, Board Member, Sequoia Capital
- Vab Goel, Board Member, Norwest Venture Partners
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lan, Shlomit (28 May 2017). "Dr. Giora Yaron: Startups need carrots not sticks". Globes.
- ↑ Savitz, Eric (4 September 2008). "Red Hat Buys Virtualization Company". Barron's.
- ↑ Wrobel, Sharon (5 September 2008). "Red Hat Buys Qumranet". Jerusalem Post.
- ↑ Businessweek.com Archived March 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, "Sequoia, Norwest, Storm Fund Israeli Startups"
- ↑ Heise.de Archived March 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, "Virtualization solution KVM will be in the next version of Linux"
- ↑ ITbusinessedge.com, "Barbarians at the VMware Gate"
- ↑ "Skating on Solid ICE Desktop Virtualization"
- ↑ Zadok, Shahar (26 May 2008). "Six Israeli start-ups among Gartner "Cool Vendors": The Cool Vendors 2008 report covers 172 companies". McClatchy.
- ↑ "Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition" (Red Hat press release)
- ↑ "Red Hat buys Qumranet for $107M. What does this mean for KVM and SolidICE?". BrianMadden.com. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ Denne, Scott (5 February 2013). "Qumranet Founders Emerge With $26M for Latest Cloud Venture, Ravello". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ↑ Vance, Ashlee (4 September 2008). "Red Hat Buys a Seat at the Virtualization Table". New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ↑ Grimland, Guy (5 September 2008). "Qumranet Makes Exit With $115m Sale". Haaretz. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ↑ Cohen, Sagi (29 May 2019). "Israeli Serial Entrepreneurs Found Fourth Startup". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ↑ Businessweek.com "Qumranet, Inc."
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