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AppSense Raises Its First Round Of Funding: $70 Million From Goldman Sachs

February 23, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

User virtualization specialist AppSense has raised $70 million from Goldman Sachs (via TechCrunch).

User virtualization solves many of the complex technical issues around delivering a consistent environment in any environment (e.g. working from home, buying your own computer) and across any device including smartphones, iPads and other tablets.

From an enterprise perspective, it also allows IT to reduce the cost of maintenance and major upgrades, such as Windows 7 migration, reduce the time it takes users to log on and speed up the delivery of applications regardless of whether they are locally stored or cloud-based.

The software also enables them to retain control from a security perspective, without restricting the user by imposing a “lockdown” policy.

AppSense says it is already profitable and growing rapidly. Last year its turnover was $47 million, a 60% increase on the previous year.

In 2010, AppSense signed up more than 4,000 enterprise and government customers around the world, including major companies like BT, ESPN, JPMorgan Chase and United Airlines.

Last year, AppSense says it sold some 1.5 million user licenses, comprising a partnership with Fujitsu to provide desktop management solutions to the Department for Work and Pensions for more than 1,000 locations and over 140,000 users in the UK.

Cisco Touts 4,000 Customers For Its Unified Computing System, And Other Milestones

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Cisco this morning announced a series of customer and technology milestones across the Unified Fabric, Unified Computing System and Unified Network Services technology portfolios which form the foundation of its Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework.

Cisco announced that it has shipped its one millionth Nexus 10Gb Ethernet port, bringing the total number of Nexus ports in customer production environments to more than 7,000,000.

The company also surpassed 10,000 NX-OS customers and neared 4,000 Unified Computing Systems customers at the end of its fiscal second quarter.

The Nexus and UCS families of products are vital assets in Cisco’s cloud computing portfolio. They provide the building blocks for virtualized data center and private cloud environments, and are already deployed by enterprises for private cloud applications such as desktop virtualization, hosted voice, video, collaboration and security.

UCS and Nexus have been implemented for cloud services at service providers such as AlphaWest, Cincinnati Bell, Navisite, Orange Business Services, PINS, Rackspace, Radiant, Savvis and Terremark.

Cisco announced today that it has reached nearly 4,000 customers for its Unified Computing System, eighteen months since the first generation of the platform shipped. In excess of 1,000 of these customers are said to be repeat purchasers of UCS.

As of Cisco’s fiscal year second quarter 2011, Cisco’s Unified Computing System revenue grew more than 700% year-over-year, bringing the UCS annualized revenue run rate to $650M.

Industry Vet Frank Artale Joins VC Firm Ignition Ventures As Managing Director

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Ignition Venture Management recently announced that Frank Artale has joined the firm as a general partner. Artale brings more than 26 years of experience to Ignition with a deep expertise in cloud and virtualization software.

At Ignition, Artale will focus on core infrastructure, networking and security investments for Ignition Venture Partners IV, a $400 million fund.

The obvious link: Artale has been an entrepreneur and exec in several Ignition portfolio companies including CEO of Consera (sold to HP) as well as VP of business development and strategic marketing at XenSource (acquired by Citrix Systems).

Artale has also worked alongside Ignition as Chairman of the Board and director of Rendition Networks (sold to Opsware) and as an advisor to Zenprise. He’s currently Chairman of the Board and a director at Open Kernel Labs, a mobile virtualization supplier and a director at DotNetNuke, an open source content management platform.

Former Salesforce Execs Launch On-Demand Identity And Access Management Service Okta

February 3, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Okta recently unveiled a new on-demand identity and access management service that helps enterprises accelerate the adoption of their cloud and web-based applications.

With Okta, IT can address the security and management challenges by integrating cloud applications with existing directory services, controlling access across applications, quickly provisioning and de-provisioning employees, and centrally analyzing usage across all applications.

For end users, Okta provides single sign-on across all of their applications, eliminating password fatigue and improving their productivity.

Led by CEO Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com, Okta has raised $11 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Early Okta customers include Pandora, LiveOps, Enterasys, FusionStorm, and AMAG Pharmaceuticals.

Virtela Gains New CEO, Debuts Open Acceleration Service For Public Clouds

February 3, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtela, the managed network, security and cloud services company, announced that B.V. Jagadeesh has joined as president and chief executive officer.

Prior to joining Virtela, Jagadeesh served as group vice president and general manager of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group after the company’s $325 million acquisition of NetScaler, where he served as president and CEO.

Jagadeesh previously co-founded Exodus Communications and was instrumental in leading its IPO. He serves as chairman of the board of NetMagic Solutions, a leading IT services company in India, and was a director of Ankeena (acquired by Juniper Networks) and Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell).

In tandem with the appointment of Jagadeesh, Virtela introduced the Cloud Accelerator service, which extends Virtela ESC’s acceleration benefits to applications hosted within the public cloud environment, such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, and IBM Cloudburst.

ManageEngine Adds Hyper-V Support To Application Management Software

January 21, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

ManageEngine, makers of a suite of network, systems, applications and security management software solutions, today announced support for monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V servers is now part of ManageEngine Applications Manager, the company’s server and application performance monitoring software.

ManageEngine started with VMware monitoring last year.

ManageEngine Applications Manager’s new monitoring capabilities help IT administrators gain insight into the health and performance of Hyper-V servers as well as the virtual machines configured in those servers. The software helps Operations teams troubleshoot problems quickly, reduce VM downtime and eliminate performance bottlenecks.

With the help of performance stats and in-depth reports, IT administrators can ensure their virtual systems are performing at optimum levels.

A 30-day fully functional trial edition of ManageEngine Applications Manager can be downloaded from the website. Pricing starts at $1,590 for the Professional Edition with the Hyper-V Monitor.