Acquisitions

VMware has acquired certain assets from RTO Software, a provider of user profile management for Windows desktop and application/performance monitoring tools for desktop virtualization, to enable effective persona management for VMware View.

RTO Software is a company with core expertise in user profile management and application-focused performance monitoring tools that improve user experience and performance of VDI or terminal server environments. RTO Software solutions are used on thousands of servers around the world in a variety of industries, including financial management, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, and government.  RTO Software products include:

• Virtual Profiles – profile management

• PinPoint – application performance monitoring targeting Citrix solutions

• Discover – IT assets management solution

• TScale – applicaenvironments

Scott Davis, the VMware View CTO gives a bit more clarification about what RTO offers with Virtual Profiles:

This is an exciting technology. For those unfamiliar with the specifics of what Virtual Profiles actually does, the technology seamlessly virtualizes, caches and synchronizes a desktop user’s roaming profile, while improving both the performance and data integrity of the profile. When a user logs on, instead of monolithically delivering the entire user profile and making the user wait for all of it, Virtual Profiles performs a “just-in-time” delivery.

Windows thinks the entire profile is present, however the contents of each segment or file is brought down and subsequently cached when accessed.  When files are updated and closed, Virtual Profiles automatically synchronizes the files  with the profile server, maintaining data integrity across user sessions in real-time and speeding up logoffs.  This  preserves user configuration integrity independently of the desktop image; and also propagates those changes to any other concurrent user sessions that may exist, maintaining data integrity across sessions as well. Registry updates are handled in a similar manner; but at finer granularity.

Profile registry changes are automatically synchronized with the stored profile on the server. Since only what has been written to the registry locally is copied back, hive corruption is prevented.

CA today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held 3Tera. With 3Tera—which follows CA’s recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore—CA continues to aggressively expand its portfolio of solutions to manage cloud computing as part of an integrated information technology management program.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

3Tera’s AppLogic offers an innovative solution for building cloud services and deploying complex enterprise-class applications to public and private clouds using an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).

3Tera enables enterprises and service providers to provision, deploy and scale public and private cloud computing environments while maintaining full control, flexibility and reliability. 3Tera also makes it easy for service providers to offer application stacks on demand by adding applications to the AppLogic catalog, where they can be deployed to a low-cost, shared cloud infrastructure. 3Tera’s customers include more than 80 enterprises and service providers globally, which use the cloud computing technology to provide services to thousands of users.

Using the intuitive GUI and drawing from a catalog of pre-configured virtual server and software components, AppLogic simplifies the design and deployment of composite applications as a single logical entity in the cloud. By unifying application configuration, application deployment, and a virtual server fabric—functions that are otherwise typically performed in a fragmented manner—AppLogic helps reduce costs, improve productivity and increase service quality.

In addition to AppLogic, 3Tera provides a cloud computing marketplace that allows software vendors to provide developers with production-ready cloud components and full applications that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This greatly facilitates exchanges of value between developers, service providers and customers.

By streamlining cloud-based deployment of composite applications, 3Tera adds significant new capabilities alongside CA’s existing virtual and physical infrastructure management functionality—including that provided by CA Spectrum Automation Manager, the CA Service Assurance line of products, and the recently acquired assets of Cassatt and Oblicore.

CA plans to integrate AppLogic with these and other key technologies to provide customers with a comprehensive set of tools for delivering, managing and optimizing cloud computing as part of overall enterprise IT environment.  CA also plans to extend support of 3Tera, which currently operates on the Xen virtualization platform, to include both VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V.

SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software , today announced that it has acquired certain of the assets of Tek-Tools, a privately-held company with offices in Dallas, TX and Chennai, India, with a combination of cash and stock for up to $42 million.

Tek-Tools’ Profiler suite of products gives users visibility into the performance of storage and virtualized server infrastructures. The addition of Tek-Tools’ offerings to the SolarWinds Orion product portfolio will add management of enterprise storage infrastructure to existing network and applications management capabilities, delivering an end-to-end IT management solution.

The SolarWinds Orion product family has long offered companies of all sizes network, systems and application management through products such as Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) andOrion Application Performance Monitor (APM). Tek-Tools’ products will add deeper storage and virtualization management to the SolarWinds portfolio, delivering broader IT management capabilities and increasing IT organizations efficiency and responsiveness.

Tek-Tools’ Profiler Suite will continue to be available from SolarWinds and select channel partners.

Cavalier, a provider of telecommunications services throughout the eastern United States, has acquired the assets of NET Telcos, a Richmond, Virginia-based provider of colocation and managed services.

NET Telcos’ SAS 70-certified data center provides more than 4,000 square feet of colocation space and managed services which include server virtualization, data backups, firewalls and e-mail hosting.

The NET Telcos acquisition provides a solid platform for Cavalier to expand colocation and managed services offerings to its current customer base in the Mid-Atlantic region. Cavalier’s current customers will have the ability to access the managed services provided in the data center using a variety of cost-effective access solutions which provide the required bandwidth for server colocation, remote backup, disaster recovery and server replication.

For existing NET Telcos customers, Cavalier’s extensive voice, data, IP and fiber network infrastructure will provide enhanced connectivity and service options throughout the region. With the ability to leverage a single carrier network, customers will be able to consolidate their services and budgets and allow Cavalier to manage more of their IT network.