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VirtualLogix Promises First Virtualization Phone At Mobile World Congress

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VirtualLogix has just sent out an e-mail proclaiming that they’re about to launch the world’s first virtualized phone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:

Come see the world’s first virtualized phone at the VirtualLogix booth, 2D49, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 16-19.

VirtualLogix will be demonstrating how VLX virtualization can accelerate mobile phone innovation by rapidly adding more functionality at a lower cost to mass-market mobile phones.

Join us at our booth in Hall 2D to learn the significance of performance, power and security to virtualization on computing devices. Click here to schedule a demo or request a meeting at the show.

Should be interesting, indeed!

VMware: Fourth Quarter Disappointing But Still Better Than Expected

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VMware today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008.

  • Revenues for the fourth quarter were $515 million, an increase of 25% from the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • GAAP operating income for the fourth quarter was $102 million, an increase of 34% from the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP operating income for the fourth quarter was $135 million, an increase of 25% from the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • GAAP net income for the fourth quarter was $111 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, compared to $78 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $142 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, compared to $103 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • Revenues for the full year 2008 were $1.9 billion, an increase of 42% from 2007.
  • GAAP operating income for the full fiscal year 2008 was $313 million, an increase of 33% from 2007. Non-GAAP operating income for the year 2008 was $469 million, an increase of 39% from 2007.
  • GAAP net income for the full fiscal year 2008 was $290 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, compared to $218 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, for 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the year 2008 was $416 million, or $1.05 per diluted share, compared to $295 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, for 2007.
  • Cash was more than $1.8 billion and deferred revenue was $870 million as of December 31, 2008. Since the beginning of 2008, cash increased 50% and deferred revenue increased 57%.

U.S. revenues for 2008 grew 37% to $988 million from 2007. International revenues grew 48% to $893 million from 2007.

License revenues for 2008 grew 30% to $1.2 billion from 2007. Services revenues grew 67% to $703 million from 2007.

(Release)

For analysis, read Tech Trader Daily and Between The Lines.

Xkoto Raises $3 Million Series C Round

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xkoto, the database virtualization company, today announced that it has raised $3 million in financing from existing investors GrandBanks Capital and GrowthWorks Canadian Fund. xkoto has now raised a total of $13 million since it was founded in 2005.

xkoto will use the funds to build its sales force, accelerate customer acquisition, and continue to enhance its GRIDSCALE database virtualization product. The company experienced record 2008 sales, added several global corporations as customers, and closed the year with 275 percent growth in the fourth quarter.

GRIDSCALE virtualizes the database infrastructure, enabling businesses to distribute application load horizontally across multiple instances of commercial databases running on clusters of low-cost hardware, mid-range systems and virtual machines. With GRIDSCALE, businesses can improve application performance and achieve continuous availability for business-critical applications.

Source: peHUB

Sun’s xVM VirtualBox 2.1.2 Comes With Full Support For Windows 7 Beta

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Sun has announced the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, which got a significant update.

VirtualBox 2.1.2 is the first to fully support the beta version of Windows 7 as a guest or operating system.

  • Users can install Windows 7 Beta on the bare metal and then run Windows Vista/XP or Ubuntu or the Sun Solaris OS.
  • Users can run Windows 7 Beta on a Mac, Windows Vista/XP, etc. Linux (all 35 types) and OpenSolaris as well.
  • VirtualBox 2.1.2 also supports more than 1,000 virtual machines per host operating system.
  • Made speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging.
  • Raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory.

And it has added or fixed a number of other items in this maintenance release.

Citrix And VCs Invest Another $15 Million In Virtual Computer

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Virtual Computer today announced it has secured $15 million in series B funding, in a round was co-led by series A investors Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners with additional investment coming from Citrix Systems.

The latest round of financing positions Virtual Computer to significantly accelerate its global sales and marketing efforts and further advance development of the company’s NxTop product offering.

NxTop, Virtual Computer’s next-generation PC management platform, makes it as easy to manage thousands of PCs as it is to manage one, dramatically reducing PC management costs while improving PC reliability and security. NxTop isolates the PC’s critical components — hardware, operating system, applications, and user data — allowing each to be managed independently in a highly-scalable fashion without a persistent network connection.

“This is a blockbuster funding round for any company, especially in this economic environment,” said Dan McCall, president and CEO of Virtual Computer. “Not only did our current investors show their continued support for the company, but we were able to add a proven leader in the virtualization market as a strategic investor. We are looking forward to working with Citrix to help make Xen a market standard for PC lifecycle management.”