Established in 2003, KACE was headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Europe and Asia.

KACE started in 2003 when Rob Meinhardt and Marty Kacin founded and self-funded the company for over two years.

KACE developed appliances designed to help IT personnel more efficiently provision, manage, secure, and service network-connected devices.

[citation needed] In 2007, their competitors included Altiris, Novell ZENworks, BigFix, LANDesk, as well as, products for other larger companies.

[citation needed] KACE uses FreeBSD, and all collected data is stored in a number of MariaDB databases.