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 . contents 1 history 2 products 3 spinoffs 4 awards and recognition 5 funding 6 references 7 external links history edit 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 osman 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit numecent runs photoshop call of duty windows 7 and more from the cloud offline too . fast company . 2012 03 05 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . british company buys endeavors technology . la times . 2000 03 15 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . tadpole technology plc acquisition of stream theory . directions magazine . 2004 07 07 . retrieved 2013 09 13 . endeavors to present at technology council . pr newswire . 2008 04 09 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . tadpole endeavors to turn itself around . investors chronicle . 2008 06 20 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . creative buys 3dlabs . pc world . 2008 06 20 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . numecent introduces cloudpaging as a new category of computing . graphic speak . 2012 03 22 . retrieved 2013 09 13 . 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 . numecent debuts dropbox for software to speed up the cloud . forbes . 2012 03 05 . retrieved 2013 09 13 . software2 changes the way universities deliver applications . forbes . 2013 11 14 . retrieved 2015 03 19 . numecent hires new ceo . financialnews.co.uk . 2015 03 04 . retrieved 2015 03 19 . processor editorial article automated data extraction & reporting . processor.com . 2009 12 04 . retrieved 2011 11 07 . from the cloud numecent makes heavy software look light . gigaom . 2013 07 15 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . we re blown away this startup could literally change the entire software industry . business insider . 2012 05 03 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . numecents native as a service delivers native apps from the cloud . enterprise networking planet . 2013 08 01 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . numecent already has a cloudpaging spinoff for gaming . graphic speak . 2012 03 23 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . approxy teases instant gaming gratification with cloudpaging . wired . 2012 03 06 . retrieved 2013 09 12 . after spinning it out numecent buys back its approxy cloud gaming division . venturebeat.com . 2014 10 10 . retrieved 2014 10 22 . gartner cool vendor . wall street journal . 2013 05 21 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . informational technology influence study . appinions . 2013 05 21 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . numecent closes 13.6 m round of funding . bright side of news . 2013 05 31 . retrieved 2013 08 29 . numecent raises 15.5 m to bring cloudpaging to android and linux . venture beat . 2015 11 17 . retrieved 2016 03 04 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title numecent & oldid 736020872 categories software companies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create 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