Jurgen Hofkens

GIG’s purpose is to create a new peer-to-peer global cloud, that delivers local, neutral, green and secure cloud capacity. To realise this, GIG has built technology along 3 disruptive technologies: • Edge Cloud, a decentralised made of locally ‘distributed’ connected devices based on our own distribution of Linux (called Zero-OS) and our own Cloud Orchestration (At-Your-Service). • Zero-Robot, enabling intelligent automation, application orchestration and self-healing, delivering on the purpose of running a full cloud with Zero People. • Zero-Chain, our Proof-of-Stake based blockchain toolset which allows faster & more green blockchain workloads with integrated blockchain database and blockchain identity management. GIG is founded by Kristof De Spiegeleer, a serial technology entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience and 6 successful exits for his various companies to Sun, VMware, Verizon, Western Digital and others. Kristof teamed up with CEO, Willem Hendrickx, a prominent technology and telecom executive, most recently President of Alcatel-Lucent EMEA. GIG has over 100 employees and offices in Ghent, Dubai and Cairo.

Our mission is to bring cloud where our customers need it. Public cloud is very easy to get going, but you have to sacrifice data control, choice of location and it can become very expensive as well. Traditional private clouds or hypervisor platforms on the other hand often fail or go way over budget - and most of the time do not deliver the agility needed for the business. They also had a need for a skilled infrastructure team that needs to solve hardware architecture, software virtualisation, storage and compute virtualisation. Only hiring such a team is already quite a challenge. Combining the ease of use of public cloud with the data control and location aspects that private clouds bring, is what we do.

Our mission is to bring cloud where our customers need it. Public cloud is very easy to get going, but you have to sacrifice data control, choice of location and it can become very expensive as well. Traditional private clouds or hypervisor platforms on the other hand often fail or go way over budget - and most of the time do not deliver the agility needed for the business. They also had a need for a skilled infrastructure team that needs to solve hardware architecture, software virtualisation, storage and compute virtualisation. Only hiring such a team is already quite a challenge. Combining the ease of use of public cloud with the data control and location aspects that private clouds bring, is what we do.

GIG’s purpose is to create a new peer-to-peer global cloud, that delivers local, neutral, green and secure cloud capacity. To realise this, GIG has built technology along 3 disruptive technologies: • Edge Cloud, a decentralised made of locally ‘distributed’ connected devices based on our own distribution of Linux (called Zero-OS) and our own Cloud Orchestration (At-Your-Service). • Zero-Robot, enabling intelligent automation, application orchestration and self-healing, delivering on the purpose of running a full cloud with Zero People. • Zero-Chain, our Proof-of-Stake based blockchain toolset which allows faster & more green blockchain workloads with integrated blockchain database and blockchain identity management. GIG is founded by Kristof De Spiegeleer, a serial technology entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience and 6 successful exits for his various companies to Sun, VMware, Verizon, Western Digital and others. Kristof teamed up with CEO, Willem Hendrickx, a prominent technology and telecom executive, most recently President of Alcatel-Lucent EMEA. GIG has over 100 employees and offices in Ghent, Dubai and Cairo.

Our mission is to bring cloud where our customers need it. Public cloud is very easy to get going, but you have to sacrifice data control, choice of location and it can become very expensive as well. Traditional private clouds or hypervisor platforms on the other hand often fail or go way over budget - and most of the time do not deliver the agility needed for the business. They also had a need for a skilled infrastructure team that needs to solve hardware architecture, software virtualisation, storage and compute virtualisation. Only hiring such a team is already quite a challenge. Combining the ease of use of public cloud with the data control and location aspects that private clouds bring, is what we do.