Gridcentric, Inc.
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 2009 |
Headquarters | Toronto , Canada |
Key people | Eric Shefler (CEO) Tim Smith (Co-founder) Adin Scannell (Co-founder) Andres Lagar-Cavilla (Co-founder) |
Website | www.gridcentric.com |
Gridcentric, Inc., is a software company that provides virtualization technology for datacenters. The company's flagship product, Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) reduces boot time, memory footprint and operating costs for virtual machines in the cloud.
The company headquarters is in Toronto, Canada with offices in Santa Clara, California.
Gridcentric is a privately held company and venture backed by Rogers Ventures, Citrix Startup Accelerator, Investment Accelerator Fund, and Ontario Centers of Excellence. Recognition and awards include the top 25 ICT up and comers award from the Branham Group[1], top cloud computing companies to watch in 2011 by Business Innovations[2], and structure 2010 cloud computing watchlist [3].
Gridcentric supports the OpenStack project and is been used by several OpenStack cloud computing companies including Piston for building enterprise cloud platforms. [4],[5]
History
Gridcentric, Inc. was founded in 2009 by Tim Smith, Adin Scannell and Andres Lagar-Cavilla. The technology is derived from a University of Toronto research project called Snowflock [6]. The Snowflock project applied the idea of an operating system fork — a process of self-replication — to cluster management, a widely recognized problem that was proving intractable in the department’s computational biology lab.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.branham300.com/index.php?year=2010&listing=3
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2010/06/23/structure-2010-launchpad-cloudswitch-wins/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2010/06/04/at-structure-2010-we-look-at-cloud-computings-next-3-years/
- ^ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/OpenStack-Foundation-Launches-With-10M-in-Funding-5600-Members-312854/
- ^ http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/first-commercial-openstack-vdi-solution-debuts/11292
- ^ http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock