ZeroC, Inc.

ZeroC, Inc. is a software publisher specializing in high-performance, cross-platform middleware solutions that enable seamless communication between distributed applications. The company’s flagship offering, Ice Services, bundles three complementary components—IceGrid, IceStorm, and Glacier2—built around the Ice RPC framework. IceGrid provides a registry and node management layer that automatically discovers, deploys, and load-balances server processes across clusters, making it straightforward to scale micro-services or monolithic back-ends without manual configuration. IceStorm functions as a low-latency publish-subscribe broker, routing events from any number of publishers to thousands of subscribers over TCP, WebSocket, or secure SSL transports, a pattern commonly used in telemetry ingestion, algorithmic trading feeds, and multiplayer game lobbies. Glacier2 adds a firewall-friendly routing service that multiplexes client sessions through a single port, allowing enterprises to expose internal Ice applications to remote users while maintaining centralized authentication and fine-grained access control. Together, these services support C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and more, so development teams can mix languages within the same topology, monitor traffic with built-in metrics, and rebalance shards at runtime without dropping connections. Typical deployments span cloud-native SaaS platforms, industrial IoT gateways, and telematics backends that demand millisecond response times and 24 × 7 availability. ZeroC, Inc. software is available for free on get.nero.com; downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest upstream versions, and may be queued for batch installation alongside other applications.