Qumranet

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Qumranet
IndustrySoftware
Founded2005
FounderBenny Schnaider
Parent Red Hat

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.

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History

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 founding 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]

Avi Kivity was the lead developer and maintainer of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine project from mid-2006, that has been part of the Linux kernel since the 2.6.20 release in February 2007. [8]

Qumranet was on the Gartner Group's 2008 list of "Cool Vendors," an award given to small companies with advanced technology. [9]

On September 4, 2008, Qumranet was acquired by Red Hat, Inc. for $107 million. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

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  8. ↑ Interview: Avi Kivity Archived 2007-04-26 at the Wayback Machine on KernelTrap
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