QuorumLabs spun out of Themis Computer when their “skunk works” R&D team recognized that they had a compelling commercial opportunity. The distributed computing resource management (DCRM) system they had developed to provide application QoS for military “shipboard combat computing clouds” had multiple far-reaching commercial applications beyond Themis’ core military markets.

Themis continued as Quorum’s exclusive military and government representative, deploying DCRM military customers. In parallel, the QuorumLabs spin-out was funded by Airtek Capital Group (ACG) and a small group of insiders. ACG is the same closely held private European group whose primary investors funded Themis back in 1989. These investors have been instrumental in building many successful technology companies including Tekelec (NSDQ:TKLC), Ixia (NSDQ:XXIA), Orolia (NYSE Euronext:ALORO) and Sandpiper Networks (acquired by Digital Island).

QuorumLabs first pursued their closest opportunity: dynamic monitoring and management of large enterprise computing resource pools, winning accolades as a finalist for a Citrix product of the year. But customers were applying Quorum’s powerful and flexible automation platform to a much more specific and pressing need — high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). By allowing them to automate the creation, migration and management of physical and virtual machines, DCRM was assuring that customers’ business systems were always on.

Taking what their customers were doing with DCRM several steps further, QuorumLabs pre-integrated several new patent-pending features with all of the peripheral hardware and software needed to accomplish HA and DR. QuorumLabs had created a new class of turnkey Business Continuity Appliance (BC-V) that made these sophisticated enterprise capabilities so affordable and easy to use that over 600,000 businesses could now obtain one-click recovery and a protection level they thought inaccessible.

QuorumLabs has just completed converting 100% of their initial beta sites to production customers. They are getting rave reviews, broad acceptance and high enthusiasm from their initial channel partners as they build out their reseller network and ramp revenues. Formal public launch of QuorumLabs and onQ is scheduled for Fall 2009.