Numecent Drops the Bomb on Cloud Computing: Run Everything, Everywhere
March 5, 2012
One of biggest news coming out of the first day of GDC 2012 is a new venture by co-founders of 3Dlabs. Numecent is exiting the stealth mode in a big way – by launching a revolutionary cloud service. The company originates from 1999 by Osman Kent, the co-founder and CEO of 3Dlabs. Osman is mostly known as one of the fathers of the GPU and OpenGL. After he sold 3Dlabs to Creative Technology, Osman focused on Numecent.
The magnitude of this announcement is much greater than the two earthquakes that hit San Francisco this morning, since we’re finally seeing a birth of cloud service that wants to simplify the life for the consumers, rather than tying them in proprietary software licenses…
Numecent started its life in 1999 as UCI/DARPA project, receiving a $40 million investment from Tadpoole in order to develop the Stream Theory. Ten years later, in 2009 the company gathered additional $7.5 million and this year they want to gather a serious Round-A, targeting a $10 million investment. In order for such investment to take part, the service offered needs to be something special, and the IP needs to be well protected.
What is Cloudpaging?
We have reported about numerous cloud streaming services in the past, but so far, every cloud streaming service we have discussed was based on streaming the code or streaming pixels. Cloudpaging is the first service that targets both the consumers and enterprises and does not require to either rely on Amazon Web Services or build the data infrastructure on their own.