GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 by Nati Shalom,[REF] the company's CTO, who is also a co-founder member of the Israeli Grid consortium, the Israeli non-profit organization focused on grid computing, virtualization, and cloud computing technology.
GigaSpaces initially focused on the data scaling industry with its XAP products that provide distributed computing for extreme transaction processing,[REF][REF][REF] and in February 2012, an additional open source platform as a service called Cloudify,[REF][REF] a cloud computing technology was made generally available.