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Insight Venture Partners outbids Dell for Quest Software at $25.75 per share in cash

June 21, 2012 by Toon Vanagt Leave a Comment

Quest Software has accepted a sweetened $2.17-billion bid to be acquired by Insight Venture Partners (partnering with Vector Capital).

The buyout group offers stockholders $25.75 per share in cash. This increased purchase price represents a 33-percent premium to Quest’s closing stock price on the day prior to the initial announcement of the Insight Merger Agreement on March 8, 2012. Dell stopped its counter bid at $25.50 last week.

This transaction will be financed through a combination of a $187 million equity commitment from Insight, a $187 million equity commitment from Vector, a rollover of at least 84% of Quest CEO Vinny Smith’s existing shares and approximately $1.2 billion of debt financing commitments from J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., RBC Capital Markets and Barclays Capital.

Quest has been on quite a Virtualization shopping spree itself over the last few years and unexpectedly bought their VKernel competitor in November 2011? Earlier acquisitions to enrich their management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments incluced Invirtus (2007) and Vizioncore (2008).

Below is our latest video interview with Scott Herold, Director, Virtualization Strategy at Quest Software, taken at VMworld Europe 2011. Prior to Quest, Scott was Vice President for Product Engineering at Invirtus and Director of R&D at Vizioncore.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Partnerships, People Tagged With: insight, Insight Venture Partners, quest software, Vector capital, VKernel, vOps

AppSense Affinity Program Extends User Virtualization To Partners

October 25, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, today announced the AppSense Affinity Partner Program, enabling ecosystem partners to engage in joint user virtualization initiatives spanning market awareness, co-development and technical certification.

Customers will benefit from optimized solutions and jointly developed best practices designed to help accelerate desktop transformation initiatives in four distinct ways – environment assessment, application analysis and migration and desktop deployment – all underpinned by user virtualization.

Each of the Affinity Partner solutions work in conjunction with AppSense user virtualization technology to ensure an accelerated and successful transformation project.

Founding partners include App-DNA, Centrix and Lakeside Software.

Filed Under: Partnerships Tagged With: AppSense, AppSense Affinity Partner Program, AppSense Affinity Program

Desktone Partners With VMware To Deliver Desktop-as-a-Service Offering

October 17, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Desktone, provider of Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS), today announced it is partnering with VMware to deliver a new desktop-as-a-service solution.

The solution will make it easy for service providers to offer full-featured, highly cost-effective virtual desktops.

The joint VMware-Desktone roadmap includes:

– Desktone DaaS Platform: Launched more than four years ago for delivering cloud-hosted DaaS. Features such as multi-tenancy, grid architecture, role separation, and cloud economics achieved through substantial use of open source, are what make the Desktone offering attractive.

– VMware View 5 with PCoIP display protocol: Enables service providers to enhance their Desktone-powered DaaS solutions by providing an end-user experience that is comparable to that available with a physical PC.

– VMware vSphere 5 and cloud infrastructure suite: Enables service providers to leverage the industry’s leading cloud infrastructure platform providing security, reliability, high availability, reduced cost and optimal performance for cloud-hosted desktops.

– VMware vCloud technology: Enables service providers to take advantage of common orchestration and automation by integrating the Desktone Platform directly with a hypervisor.

The VMware View-based DaaS offering will be available to service providers later this year.

Filed Under: Partnerships Tagged With: Desktone, Desktone DaaS Platform, desktop virtualization, Desktop-as-a-service, virtual desktops, vmware, VMware View 5, VMware vSphere 5, VMware-Desktone

Cisco, Citrix Join Forces To Deliver Rich Media-Enabled Virtual Desktops

October 17, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Cisco and Citrix Systems have announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to develop and deliver solutions that help customers simplify and accelerate large-scale desktop virtualization deployments.

Through this alliance, Cisco and Citrix will drive innovations that simplify the deployment of high-definition virtual desktops and applications and improve end-user experiences over a Citrix HDX-enabled Cisco network.

The companies will also continue to enhance and build upon their data center solutions and cloud technologies to help accelerate deployment of cloud services.

In addition, the two companies will invest in joint go-to-market activities that will focus on driving primary product and services demand in high growth market areas such as desktop virtualization and cloud markets.

Filed Under: Featured, Partnerships Tagged With: Cisco, citrix, Citrix Systems, desktop virtualization, virtual desktops

Desktone, GMO CLOUD To Make Cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktops Big In Japan

October 3, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Desktone today announced that it has partnered with GMO CLOUD K.K., the leading Japanese cloud solutions provider, to bring cloud-hosted virtual desktops to the Japanese market.

With this announcement, Desktone further extends its global delivery of virtual desktops.

The Desktone Cloud is a product for enabling virtual desktops in the cloud. By using the Desktone Cloud as the foundation of its DaaS service, GMO CLOUD helps customers instantly benefit from virtual desktops at a cost that is significantly lower than those typically associated with traditional VDI and shared desktop environments.

GMO CLOUD’s Desktone-powered DaaS service will be available on October 27, 2011, branded as “IQcloud Desktop.”

Filed Under: Partnerships Tagged With: Desktone, GMO CLOUD, IQcloud Desktop

AppSense Teams Up With Centrix Software For User-Centric Desktop Transformation Program

September 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, and Centrix Software, provider of unified end-user computing solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to provide organizations with a user-centric transformation program.

The partnership will allow organizations to simplify and accelerate the adoption of new technologies and platforms including Windows 7, desktop and application virtualization, cloud computing and BYOD initiatives.

Through a user-centric approach, AppSense and Centrix eliminate many user-related project barriers that burden traditional desktop transformation projects. IT managers are assured of delivering projects faster, with less risk, while delivering a consistent end-user experience across all platforms.

The program has been helping mutual AppSense and Centrix Software customers and partners with desktop transformation projects, and is part of many standard offerings.

AppSense and Centrix will be hosting a joint webinar, “Transforming the Enterprise Desktop″, on Wednesday, October 5 at 3 p.m. GMT.

Filed Under: Partnerships Tagged With: AppSense, Centrix, Centrix Software

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