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VMTurbo Raises $10 Million

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VMTurbo, a provider of intelligent workload management software in virtualized environments, today announced that it has closed a $10 million Series B round of funding, financed by returning investors Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.

VMTurbo will use the funding to expand product development, customer support, sales and marketing.

VMTurbo is the only virtualization management solution to combine real-time operational performance metrics with unique analytics to drive a broad set of workload management actions that assure both application performance and most efficient use of virtualized and cloud environments.

The company was founded in 2009.

Puppet Labs Scores $8.5M In New Funding From Cisco, Google Ventures And VMware

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Puppet Labs, a provider of IT automation software for system administrators, today announced the closing of $8.5 million in Series C financing. New investors Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware join existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures, and Radar Partners.

With the $8.5 million investment, Puppet Labs has now raised a total of $15.75 million.

The company now boasts more than 250 customers including Zynga, Twitter, NYSE, Disney, Citrix, Oracle/Sun, Constant Contact, Match.com, Shopzilla, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Stanford University.

In January, Puppet Labs expanded beyond its open source roots and announced Puppet Enterprise, the first commercial version of Puppet, its IT automation solution for system administrators.

In September, Puppet Labs announced Puppet Enterprise 2.0 at its annual user conference, PuppetConf. Puppet Enterprise 2.0 has opened new markets for Puppet Labs in making the provisioning, configuring, and managing of virtualized and cloud infrastructure dramatically easier for system administrators.

TeamQuest Acquires Performance Surveyor

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TeamQuest Corporation this morning announced the acquisition of Performance Surveyor from Solution Labs, a Canadian capacity management company.

Performance Surveyor strengthens the unique TeamQuest automated analytics and capacity management offerings that are so critical to the success of physical, virtual and cloud IT environments.

Virtustream Appoints Karl Deacon As Managing Director, EMEA

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Virtustream, a cloud solutions provider, has appointed Karl Deacon as managing director for EMEA.

Deacon joins Virtustream from Capgemini where he was most recently vice president strategy and global CTO of the Infrastructure Services strategic business unit.

Prior to Capgemini, he was director of international operations and engineering, EMEA, at WorldCom, where he led a team of more than 800 people as they provided critical services to internal users and commercial services to EMEA clients.

Deacon has also held senior international roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Logica and American Express, and served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy.

Nutanix Secures $25 Million In Funding From Khosla Ventures, Others

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Nutanix, a company that offers a simple compute and storage building block for virtualizing datacenters without the need for network storage, today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures (see video here).

Existing investors, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital, are also participating in the round.

“When I was at Sun Microsystems, the focus was on decoupling the client and the server over a physical network. In the 30 years since then, the clock has turned full circle,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures. “Virtualization has made it possible to run clients and (storage) servers in the same hardware. Network storage, as we know it, is ready to be radically disrupted. Datacenters will be dramatically faster, simpler and greener with Nutanix.”

Nutanix’s over-subscribed Series B round of funding follows the company’s successful August launch of its flagship product, Nutanix Complete Cluster, a high-performance hardware and software solution that converges compute and storage into a single, compact building block for scaling out a virtualized datacenter.

Founded in 2009 by a team that built scalable systems such as Google File System and enterprise-class systems such as Oracle Database/Exadata, Nutanix is based in San Jose, California.

Red Hat, HP Achieve Top Virtualization Performance Spec.org Benchmark

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Red Hat, today announced that it has achieved a new record-setting SPECvirt_sc2010 virtualization performance benchmark in collaboration with partner HP based on the powerful Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor and HP ProLiant systems.

The SPECvirt virtualization benchmark measures the ability of a system to host virtual machines that are running a set of typical server applications and is modeled to look like a customer’s real environment.

The SPECvirt_sc2010 metric is derived from a combination of the performance of the virtualized applications, noting the number of virtual machines used in the test, and a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement.

The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 and its integrated KVM hypervisor and the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 has established new leading results – 7,424@456VMs and 76 tiles – setting the best virtual performance mark and highest number of tiles, or set of six virtual machines running an application, of any published SPECvirt result.

Including today’s record-setting result, 11 of the 18 published SPECvirt 2010 benchmark results published at Spec.org were achieved using KVM technology.