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Pano Logic, Unidesk Collaborate On Low Cost Desktop Virtualization Projects

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Pano Logic and Unidesk have announced a collaboration to further reduce the capital costs (CAPEX) and operational costs (OPEX) of desktop virtualization, while setting a new standard for user personalization and management simplicity.

Joint customers and solution partners are finding that Unidesk’s ability to offer end users persistent virtual desktops that maintain all customizations without requiring major storage investments and Pano Logic’s ability to radically simplify desktop computing with its zero client platform are an ideal combination for VMware vSphere-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

Pano Logic and Unidesk are collaborating to ensure their products work seamlessly together, and are engaging in product roadmap planning to align future releases. Their customer support teams are also working together to service joint customers.

Phoenix Technologies Completes Sale of HyperSpace Assets to HP

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Phoenix Technologies has announced that it has completed the sale of the assets related to its HyperSpace, HyperCore and Phoenix Flip instant-on and client virtualization products to HP.

Total consideration from the sale of the assets is $12.0 million, of which approximately $9.8 million was paid to Phoenix at the closing, after deducting certain fees and costs relating to the transaction, and $2.0 million which was placed into escrow to cover certain potential Company indemnification obligations.

“The completion of this transaction marks a major milestone for our Company as we refocus our efforts on our CSS business where we have a proven track record of success,” said Tom Lacey, President and CEO of Phoenix. “With this cash infusion, we are well poised to extend our CSS market leadership and improve our enterprise value.”

Infonetics: Virtual Security Market Up 119% in 1Q 2010, To Hit $1.6 Billion In 2014

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Market research firm Infonetics Research released the first edition of its new 2010 biannual Virtual Security Appliances market size and forecast report, which tracks VPNs and firewalls, SSL VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and content security gateways designed for virtualized servers.

The worldwide virtual security appliance market jumped 64% in 2009 over 2008, to $203.8 million.

  • Year-over-year, from the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, the virtual security appliance market is up 119%
  • Infonetics Research forecasts the virtual security appliance market to grow nearly 8-fold from 2009 to 2014, when it will near $1.6 billion
  • The virtual security appliance segment posting the strongest quarterly growth in 1Q10 is content security gateway virtual appliances, up 22%
  • North America is currently the largest regional market for virtual security appliances

Infonetics’ biannual Virtual Security Appliances report provides worldwide and regional market size, forecasts through 2014, and analysis for virtual security appliances, including VPNs/firewalls, SSL VPNs, IDS/IPS, and content security gateways specifically designed to be installed on virtualized server platforms (VMware, XenServer, Windows Server with Hyper-V). The service counts licenses, revenue, and revenue per license for all virtual security appliance categories.
Companies tracked in the report include AEP, Altor, Astaro, Blue Coat, Check Point, Citrix, Enterasys, McAfee, SonicWALL, Stonesoft, Symantec, Vyatta, and others.

MDS, Open Kernel Labs Team Up to Bring Mobile Virtualization to Korea

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MDS Technology, a Korean provider of embedded solutions, and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced a distribution partnership to provide regional marketing, sales, training, and technical support in Korea for OK Labs mobile virtualization solutions, including the OKL4 Microvisor.

OK Labs is the leader in virtualization software for mobile devices, while MDS is the leading distributor of embedded applications in Korea. OK Labs offers a range of benefits across the mobile ecosystem, including semiconductor vendors, mobile OEMs, mobile network operators, developers, mobile end users, and enterprise IT.

OK Labs software now ships on popular mobile smartphones such as the NexusOne, HTC Hero, Motorola Cliq, Palm Pre, and Toshiba TG01OK. The OKL4 Microvisor powers the world’s first commercially-available fully-virtualized smartphone, the Motorola Evoke QA4. The company also offers off-the-shelf OS Support Packages — OK:Android, OK:Linux, and OK:Symbian — for rapid integration in OKL4-based systems.

Former 3Dlabs CEO Osman Kent Named New Chairman of Endeavors Technologies

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Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer of application virtualization and the inventor of application streaming, announced today that Silicon Valley veteran Osman Kent joined the company as an investing Chairman.

The announcement was made at BriForum, the premier desktop and application virtualization event geared toward technologists held June 15-17, 2010 at the Chicago Hilton.

Osman Kent is a serial technology and media entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of 3Dlabs – at one time an almost $1B NASDAQ company which enabled 3D graphics on the PC.

Kent is an advisor and non-executive director for a number of emerging technology and media companies and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. He has a First Class degree in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from University of Birmingham (UK) and he is the inventor of numerous patents in the field of computing and graphics.

Certeon And nScaled Partner Up

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Certeon, provider of virtualized WAN optimization and application acceleration, today announced that nScaled, a leading provider of cloud computing services, is joining Certeon’s global Partner Program as a provider of Certeon aCelera virtual appliance software solutions.

nScaled has partnered with Certeon to offer its customers secure and optimized access to core applications delivered on nScaled’s VMware-based cloud computing platform.

nScaled is a provider of virtual data center resources (cloud computing) to clients with zero tolerance for data loss or system downtime. nScaled is focused on secure access and optimized delivery of its financial, legal, and professional services customers’ highly sensitive data.

Together, nScaled and Certeon can help enterprise customers rapidly access remote core client applications such as Autonomy Document Management and Microsoft SharePoint. Certeon’s aCelera virtual appliances enable nScaled to rapidly deploy managed services that overcome the negative impact of the WAN on user response time between nScaled’s cloud computing environment and customer remote sites. The result is secure cloud computing services delivered as if the data was being accessed locally.