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Qumranet

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Founder
  
Moshe Bar

Parent organization
  
Red Hat Software

Founded
  
2005

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Headquarters
  
Santa Clara, California, United States

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

From a 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.

On September 4, 2008, Qumranet was acquired by Red Hat, Inc for $107 million USD.

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

    • References

    Qumranet Wikipedia
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