Virtamove Corp.

VirtaMove Corp. is a private Canadian software company founded in 2001 with its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a small company, with an estimated 9 to 15 employees and annual revenue estimated at $4.4 million. VirtaMove has received venture capital funding, raising a total of $6.5M to $31M over several rounds.

VirtaMove is an operating company that develops and sells software for application migration and modernization. Its main products, including V-Migrate and V-Maestro, automate the process of moving server applications from older legacy operating systems to modern platforms, either in-house or in the cloud, without needing to rewrite code. The company's patented technology encapsulates applications in containers to facilitate the move. Its services include application discovery, migration strategy, and data center consolidation for Windows Server and Linux applications.

The company has recently become an active patent litigant. The provided database shows VirtaMove as a plaintiff in 11 cases and a defendant in only three. Starting in 2024, VirtaMove initiated an "aggressive litigation campaign" by suing major technology companies, including IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. These lawsuits, primarily filed in the Western and Eastern Districts of Texas, allege that the defendants' cloud and containerization services—such as Google's Migrate to Containers and Amazon's Elastic Container Service—infringe on VirtaMove's patents related to containerization technology.

The litigation has prompted defensive actions from some of the accused infringers and their affiliates. Google has filed a post-grant review proceeding against a VirtaMove patent at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Additionally, Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary, filed a declaratory judgment action in California seeking to invalidate the patents being asserted against its parent company and others, although this case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The core of VirtaMove's infringement claims appears to relate to the use of open-source technologies like Docker and Kubernetes in the accused products.