Ardence was a software company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with representatives in Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, VA; Chicago, IL; Denton, TX; and in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

VenturCom was founded in 1980,[1] by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman.

It allowed any x86-based computer - desktop, server, or device - to be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal.

The core technology behind the software streaming product was a device driver for the selected operating system, which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol.

[5] Basically, computers were configured to netboot a kernel that contained this device driver.