Numecent

Numecent
Private
Founded Orange County, CA (2012)
Headquarters 15635 Alton Parkway
Suite 100
Irvine, California
Key people
 Osman Kent,
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder;
Tom Lagatta,
CEO;
Arthur Hitomi,
CTO and Co-Founder;
Products Cloudpaging, Cloudpaging CDN
Parent Numecent Holdings, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Website Numecent.com

Numecent is a Irvine, California-based software company. The company develops a technology platform which delivers native software applications from cloud computing servers using virtualization technology. The patented technology, known as "cloudpaging", allows the delivery of pre-virtualized software instructions to a user's machine on-demand, where the instructions are executed as soon as they are received.

History

Numecent's roots started in 1999 as a DARPA project at U.C. Irvine with Arthur Hitomi, one of three scientists who had formed Endeavors Technology Inc., an Irvine, California-based software development company. The project connected computers and mobile devices to Internet work groups and developed an application delivery technology to support these groups.[1]

In 2000, Tadpole Technology PLC, a maker of mobile computing devices and software, purchased Endeavors.[2] In 2004, Tadpole also acquired Stream Theory, a California-based software company that developed technology for deploying application software over the Internet and across enterprise networks, with a focus on the gaming market.[3] Those two companies constituted the genesis of the technology for cloudpaging.

In 2007, after patenting its application streaming technology, Tadpole decided to focus solely on developing that business.[4] In 2008, Tadpole changed its name to Endeavors Technologies Inc.[5]

Endeavors' technology caught the attention of Osman Kent, who had sold 3Dlabs to Creative Labs in 2002.[6] Tadpole had gone into administration during the 2008 credit crunch, and Kent bought the streaming technology IP and patents from the administrators, and formed Numecent Holdings.[7]

While the company was in stealth mode perfecting the technology, two employees started a Boston-based spinoff called Software2, to help universities deploy Microsoft Windows applications on physical machines and on the cloud.[8]

In 2012, Numecent publicly launched with Kent as CEO.[9]

In 2013, Numecent and Software2 announced their partnership, with Numecent's flagship cloudpaging product, Application Jukebox Suite, deployed at 40 universities in the UK.[10]

In March 2015, Numecent announced the hiring of former Broadcom Executive Vice President Tom Lagatta as CEO, and that Osman Kent was promoted to the role of Executive Chairman.[11]

Products

The company’s main product is Cloudpaging, which enables existing Windows applications to cloudpage to PCs, where they run, perform, and act as if they were natively installed. The Cloudpaging Server in conjunction with the Cloudpaging Player allows software to be delivered over the cloud by pre-virtualizing the software, after which it is encrypted and divided into small fragments the company calls "pages".[12] The pages are delivered one at a time, where they are then executed on the client computer. The software also employs statistical modeling to dynamically predict which pages should be sent first.

A recognized benefit of Cloudpaging is that desktop applications are fully available faster, with less disk space required.[13] Applications can also run if the computer is disconnected from the Internet, such as with a network outage.[14]

In August 2013, the company announced a service dubbed Native-as-a-Service, or NaaS, now branded Cloudpaging CDN. Offered in conjunction with Amazon Web Services multi-tenant cloud, or via a self-hosting option, applications and virtualized licenses are cloudified and made available for delivery to end users without having to rewrite or recompile the underlying source code.[15]

Spinoffs

Numecent announced the first spin off of its technology, Approxy, in 2012. Approxy offers a white-label delivery service for game developers and publishers.[16] Approxy’s system reduces the delay for players, allowing them to start playing after only a few seconds of download, and additional code necessary to play is retrieved piece-by-piece.[17] In October 2014, Numecent announced they were bringing the Approxy group back under the Numecent parent, to make it easier to sell to game industry customers who required access to cloudpaging source code.[18]

Awards and recognition

Numecent was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing for 2013.[19] Founder Osman Kent was named the 11th most influential executive in Cloud Computing in an August 2013 Appinions report.[20]

Funding

In May 2013 Numecent secured $13.6 M in funding from T-Venture, Deutsche Telecom's venture funding arm.[21]

In November 2015, a Series-B funding round in the amount of $15.5 M was secured. [22]

References

  1. ↑ "Numecent Runs Photoshop, "Call of Duty," Windows 7, And More From The Cloud--Offline, Too". Fast Company. 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  2. ↑ "British Company Buys Endeavors Technology". LA Times. 2000-03-15. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  3. ↑ "Tadpole Technology plc Acquisition of Stream Theory". Directions Magazine. 2004-07-07. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  4. ↑ "Endeavors to Present at Technology Council". PR Newswire. 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  5. ↑ "Tadpole Endeavors to Turn Itself Around". Investors Chronicle. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  6. ↑ "Creative Buys 3Dlabs". PC World. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  7. ↑ "Numecent introduces Cloudpaging as a new category of computing". Graphic Speak. 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  8. ↑ "New cloud tech helps students work even when there's no room in the computer lab". Venturebeat.com. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  9. ↑ "Numecent Debuts "Dropbox for Software" to Speed Up the Cloud". Forbes. 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  10. ↑ "Software2 Changes the Way Universities Deliver Applications". Forbes. 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  11. ↑ "Numecent Hires New CEO". FinancialNews.co.uk. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  12. ↑ "Processor Editorial Article - Automated Data Extraction & Reporting". Processor.com. 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  13. ↑ "From the Cloud Numecent Makes Heavy Software Look Light". GigaOM. 2013-07-15. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  14. ↑ "We're Blown Away - This Startup Could Literally Change the Entire Software Industry". Business Insider. 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  15. ↑ "Numecents Native as a Service Delivers Native Apps from the Cloud". Enterprise Networking Planet. 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  16. ↑ "Numecent Already Has a Cloudpaging Spinoff for Gaming". Graphic Speak. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  17. ↑ "Approxy Teases Instant Gaming Gratification With ‘Cloudpaging’". Wired. 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
  18. ↑ "After spinning it out, Numecent buys back its Approxy cloud-gaming division". Venturebeat.com. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2014-10-22.
  19. ↑ "Gartner Cool Vendor". Wall Street Journal. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  20. ↑ "Informational Technology Influence Study". Appinions. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  21. ↑ "Numecent Closes $13.6M Round of Funding". Bright Side of News. 2013-05-31. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  22. ↑ "Numecent raises $15.5M to bring cloudpaging to Android and Linux". Venture Beat. 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2016-03-04.

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