Qumranet

The company was founded in 2005 by CEO Benny Schnaider, with Rami Tamir as president, Moshe Bar as CTO, and chairman Giora Yaron.[1] The company's first product, named "Solid ICE", hosted Windows and Linux desktops on central servers located in a data center.[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.
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