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Desktop Cloud Company Wanova Scores $10 Million In Series B Funding

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Wanova, a turn-key desktop cloud provider, has announced a $10 million Series B venture round by Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures and Opus Capital.

The financing will be used to build global sales and support teams to for Wanova’s flagship product, Mirage.

Wanova’s patented centralization technology provides layered, single image management of PCs in the network, local execution of the image on the PC, and optimized synchronization between local and centralized images.

With Mirage, PC images including personalization settings run locally on a PC allowing users to take advantage of PC native performance — including the ability to run multimedia applications and work while disconnected from the network.

Wanova Leaves Stealth Mode With $13 Million In Series A Funding

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Wanova has exited stealth mode and launched a “new era in desktop virtualization” with $13 million in A-round funding from Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Opus Capital.

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, the company has launched an architecture called Distributed Desktop Virtualization (DDV), which addresses the need for enterprises to improve the management, support and protection of distributed endpoints.

Wanova’s new architecture is designed specifically to address the endpoint management challenges presented by distributed remote and mobile workers. The Wanova DDV solution centralizes the entire desktop contents in the data center for management and protection purposes while distributing the execution of desktop workloads to the endpoints for superior user experience.

The founders of Wanova – Kessler and CTO, Dr. Issy Ben-Shaul – also co-founded Actona, which was acquired by Cisco and became the foundation for Cisco’s Application Delivery Business Unit. Prior to founding Actona, Kessler was vice president and general manager for Qualcomm Israel and a research staff member at IBM in New York.

Ben-Shaul was the CTO of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco and led its technology and vision. Prior to Actona, he was a tenured faculty member at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where he worked on wide area distributed systems.

Wanova is headquartered in San Jose, California with a development center in Netanya, Israel. The company’s solutions are currently in field testing with customers.

(via Venturebeat)