Company Overview
xkoto, Inc. is a fast growing enterprise software company that provides database virtualization for global businesses. Our patent-pending GRIDSCALE® platform dramatically outperforms passive backup systems by ensuring continuous availability and horizontal scalability for mission-critical data and applications. With GRIDSCALE, customers can run active-active copies of their databases - regardless of location and hardware. The result is a more agile infrastructure able to deliver data on demand at a significantly reduced cost.
Based in Waltham, Mass., with research and development in Toronto, we are a privately held software company with venture funding from GrandBanks Capital and GrowthWorks Capital.
xkoto: History in the Making
xkoto Inc. was founded in 2005 as a result of research and development work at Halcyon Monitoring Solutions Inc., an infrastructure management vendor with a global customer base including SMEs and Fortune 100 firms from every industry. Drawing on emerging ideas from utility, grid, and commodity computing, xkoto's concept of database virtualization arose out of efforts to help customers manage their web infrastructure.
xkoto's co-founders Albert Lee, Ariff Kassam and Dr. Jeff Heisz bring to xkoto an established track record in innovation with database, management, and distributed technologies, leveraging the best development and service delivery practices as a result of past collaborations with Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and other Silicon Valley partners.
In late 2007, xkoto closed a Series B funding round led by GrandBanks Capital. At that time xkoto named seasoned software industry executive David Patrick as President and CEO and established headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.
About the Name "xkoto"
The corporate charter for xkoto is well expressed in its etymology: "xkoto" is a transliteration of two Greek words which taken together convey the idea of "out of darkness, out of chaos". In effect, xkoto intends to "turn the lights on", transforming emerging technologies into productive solutions.
