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

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.[1][2][3][4]

On September 4, 2008, Qumranet was acquired by Red Hat, Inc. for $107 million.[5][6]

Key executives

  • 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[7]
  • Shmil Levy, Board Member, Sequoia Capital
  • Vab Goel, Board Member, Norwest Venture Partners

References

  1. ↑ Businessweek.com Archived March 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., "Sequoia, Norwest, Storm Fund Israeli Startups"
  2. ↑ Heise.de Archived March 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., "Virtualization solution KVM will be in the next version of Linux"
  3. ↑ ITbusinessedge.com, "Barbarians at the VMware Gate"
  4. ↑ "Skating on Solid ICE Desktop Virtualization"
  5. ↑ "Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition" (Red Hat press release)
  6. ↑ "Red Hat buys Qumranet for $107M. What does this mean for KVM and SolidICE?". BrianMadden.com. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  7. ↑ Businessweek.com "Qumranet, Inc."
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