Glasshouse acquires virtualization consulting firm RapidApp
Virtualization market is so profitable that after virtualization vendors, also virtualization consulting firms are becoming interesting acquisition targets.
Quoting from the Glasshouse Technologies official announcement:
GlassHouse Technologies, the leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, today announced it has acquired Chicago-based server virtualization consulting company RapidApp. In addition to server virtualization, the acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into virtual storage, virtual desktop infrastructure, and application delivery and deployment services. As a result GlassHouse customers will benefit from deeper infrastructure management services and consulting throughout their organizations.
…
RapidApp will be integrated into GlassHouse’s existing organization, increasing GlassHouse’s total number of employees to over 450 worldwide. Northcutt will assume the role of vice president of Delivery, U.S. and UK; Koury will assume the role of vice president in the GlassHouse sales division…
virtualization.info Newest articles
December 11th, 2013
Oracle yesterday announced that it will sponsor and participate in the OpenStack Foundation.
Besides sponsoring the foundation, Oracle plans to Integrate OpenStack Capabilities into Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM,…
December 11th, 2013
Atlantis Computing provider of storage solutions for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments has announced Atlantis ILIO for Hyper-V 3.0, the version of Hyper-V which comes with Windows Server 2012 R2….
December 10th, 2013
During VMworld in October this year, VMware announced version 6.0 of its automated virtual machine and physical server provisioning tool vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). It provides end-users with an Self-Service…
December 10th, 2013
Announced at VMworld Barcelona back in October VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 has been released today.
VMware vCOPS that converges the management of performance, capacity and configuration in vSphere environments,…
December 10th, 2013
Mainframe2 is candidate to be added soon to a list of game changing cloud technologies like Dropbox & Spotify. We are already familiar with music streaming from the cloud, documents…
December 10th, 2013
RightScale today announced that its working on an Appliance for VMware vSphere. It provides a simple, lightweight option for brining cloud features of vSphere environments. It presents a compute cloud…
December 10th, 2013
The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU Public License (GPLv) and which is now part of the Linux foundation yesterday announced the release of…
December 6th, 2013
VMware has released the RDP VC Bridge SDK. This SDK is intended for ISVs who have applications that today run on Microsoft RDP using the RDP WTS APIs.
By simply…
December 4th, 2013
VMware yesterday announced that the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service now supports Direct Connect. Direct Connect offers a dedicated and secure private line connection in addition to IPsec VPN which is…
December 3rd, 2013
Helge Klein, which we know from tools such as SetACL, SetACL studio and Delprof2 has released a Splunk agent for Windows called the uberAgent for Splunk. The agent is capable…
December 3rd, 2013
In June 2012 Google revealed its IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering, called Google Compute Engine (GCE), with the beginning of this December the service is finally Generally Available (GA),…
December 3rd, 2013
In June this year Microsoft released the betas for App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0. Both products are now released within the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2013 R2, which…
November 29th, 2013
Log Insight is VMware’s product for log management and analysis, introduced in June and quickly updated in the following months in order to be competitive on this market that sees…
November 27th, 2013
Microsoft has made available for download a new free eBook titled:”Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller“. The book which contains 104 pages provides an introduction to implementing and…
Copyright © 2003-2013 virtualization.info. All rights reserved.