Gridcentric, Inc.

Gridcentric, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware
Founded2009
Headquarters
Toronto
,
Canada
Key people
Eric Shefler (CEO)
Tim Smith (Co-founder)
Adin Scannell (Co-founder)
Andres Lagar-Cavilla (Co-founder)
Don Pinto (Product Marketing)
Websitewww.gridcentric.com

Gridcentric, Inc. was a software company that provided virtualization technology for datacenters. The company's flagship product, Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) reduced boot time, memory footprint and operating costs for virtual machines in the cloud.

The company headquarters was in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with offices in Santa Clara, California.

Gridcentric was a privately held company backed by Rogers Ventures,[1] Citrix Startup Accelerator,[2] Investment Accelerator Fund, and Ontario Centers of Excellence. It was taken over by Google in 2014.

Gridcentric supported the OpenStack project and was used by several OpenStack based cloud computing companies including Piston Cloud Computing for building enterprise cloud platforms.,[3][4]

  1. ^ "Rogers Ventures launches today as a new source of early-stage and seed investment for technology start-ups". 15 October 2009.
  2. ^ "Citrix Invests in 2 More Startups for Accelerator Program". 18 August 2011.
  3. ^ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/OpenStack-Foundation-Launches-With-10M-in-Funding-5600-Members-312854/ [dead link]
  4. ^ "First commercial OpenStack VDI solution debuts". ZDNet. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012.