Acquisitions
Funding For CiRBA and Virtual Iron, Dell Completes Acquisition of EqualLogic
More interesting news today:
CiRBA Raises $12 Million With Sigma Partners
CiRBA Inc., today announced that it has raised $12 million in its second round of institutional funding led by
Sigma Partners . Existing investors including Edgestone Capital Partners and others also participated in the round. The funding will enable CiRBA to further accelerate growth […]
Acquisition Mania: Quest Software Snaps Up Vizioncore
Ain’t no stopping the flurry of acquisition spree we’re witnessing lately in the virtualization space. As reported by many media already,
Quest Software Inc . has completed its acquisition of
Vizioncore Inc. , a provider of disaster recovery and other products for virtual infrastructure management.
Quest already took a controlling stake in the company in 2005, […]
Microsoft Betting Big on Virtualization; Acquires Calista Technologies. Citrix Up Next?
Microsoft plans to announce today what it calls a companywide strategy to accelerate broad adoption of virtualization by its customers. As part of the its new approach, the Redmond-based software giant unveiled a suite of services aimed at reducing the number of servers businesses need to use, separating applications from operating systems, reducing costs and […]
21Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedPortableApps Following In Thinstall’s Acquisition Footsteps?
Joe Foran is speculating a future acquisition of application virtualization provider
PortableApps on the
Server Virtualization Blog .
“There are, of course, differences, but the overall business models are very similar. PA is an open-source outfit, which makes them a bit more transparent than Thinstall, which has a mix of OSS and proprietary products. Since […]
19Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMWare Picks Up Desktop Virtualization Startup Thinstall
Virtualization may well be considered non-sexy
in some parts , VMWare’s
announcement that it is set to acquire
Thinstall , a San Francisco-based desktop virtualization technology provider, should be able to change that view. Bringing virtualization to the desktop is a natural evolution that is destined to become a huge opportunity in a thriving […]
