Year: 2007

Quoting from InovaWave official announcement for funding:

InovaWave, the leading provider of virtualization performance and efficiency management software, today announced that it has closed its series B round of funding for $7.2 million. Matrix Partners led the financing, while Silverton Partners, which led InovaWave’s first round, also participated. InovaWave will use the investment to expand sales, marketing, research and development for its DXtreme product line…

Quoting from InovaWave official announcement for new President and CEO:

InovaWave, the leading provider of virtualization performance and efficiency management software, today announced that it has appointed Chris Ostertag President and Chief Executive Officer. A technology industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in successfully delivering innovative technologies to market, Chris will lead the continued expansion of InovaWave.

Most recently, Chris served as vice president of worldwide sales and field operations for CREDANT Technologies, the market leader in mobile data protection solutions. Prior to CREDANT, Chris led Sun’s worldwide team of more than 4,500 technical sales experts. Chris joined Sun through its acquisition of Waveset Technologies, where he was senior vice president of worldwide sales. Prior to Waveset, Chris was at Tivoli Systems, Inc., where he grew sales from $3 million to more than $2 billion in less than five years. He has also held various sales management and leadership positions with Bowstreet, Parc Place Systems, Servio Logic Corporation, Oracle and Informix.

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Also today, InovaWave announced that Moshe Bar has joined the Company’s board of directors. A successful serial entrepreneur, Moshe is the founder of many open-source virtualization companies including OpenMosix, XenSource and Qumranet. He also co-founded Qlusters, Inc., the company behind openQRM, the leading open-source systems management solution for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Author of several books on Linux, file systems and open source development, as well as many academic papers, Moshe has taught at Tel Aviv University in Israel and is also a senior editor at Byte Magazine…

Quoting from the PlateSpin official announcement:

PlateSpin Ltd. today announced that the company has appointed Mike Sharma as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Sharma, who previously served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Platform Computing, will report directly to PlateSpin founder and CEO Stephen Pollack. Sharma will assume responsibility for managing PlateSpin’s day-to-day business operations, while Pollack will focus on the long-term strategic direction of the company.

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Sharma has more than 20 years of technology industry experience. Prior to joining Platform Computing, he was President of Netscape Canada. He managed sales in the financial services and manufacturing industry verticals at Oracle Corporation (Canada), and held several management positions at Amdahl. Sharma has a degree in Computer Science and Data Processing from Mohawk College…

Quoting from the Provision Networks official announcement:

Provision Networks, a global provider of presentation and desktop virtualization solutions, announced today that its market-leading Virtual Access Suite has been selected by IBM for inclusion in its Virtual Client Solution (VCS) ecosystem. The two companies are collaborating in the field to promote widespread adoption of VCS.

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With IBM’s Virtual Client Solution, users are able to enjoy all of the benefits and personal control of a stand-alone desktop — functionality including print capabilities, USB drive support, and audio — while reducing many of the challenges related to current stand-alone desktop environments. These challenges include limiting susceptibility to theft and viruses, ease of deployment of new users, extended downtime during a hard drive failure, or having to rebuild their preferences and settings after each client “refresh.” …

Quest entered the virtualization market with popular Vizioncore, continuing with Invirtus acquisition, never confirmed so far (but recently indentified by virtualization.info).

Now, after a deeper research, virtualization.info found a new connection between Quest and a third company called Veeam, based in Russia.

Most recent Veeam news announcement mentions a link with Quest which starts in 2004, after Aelita Software acquisition.

Aelita CTO, Andrei Baronov, also worked as R&D Director at Quest and as CTO at Amust Software, which became, as he wrotes on his personal blog, Veeam Software:

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Because customers are different for consumer tools (something Amust Software is doing from the very beginning) and Virtual Infrastructure Management tools, we decided to have a new brand for the new direction. The name we settled on is Veeam Software. It is not a separate Company yet, but we might do a spin off in the future…

So far Quest decided to keep its name away from virtualization market, but the more we go the more connections we see.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar has been updated accordingly.

Update: Veeam contacted virtualization.info and denied any relationship with Quest.

Veeam was founded as separate company after Aelita Software acquisition by Quest. After that, several former Aelita employees left Quest for Veeam.

So far Quest has no investments in Veeam.

After just one month since version 2.8, virtualization startup VMLogix launches today third major release of its lab management solution LabManager.

This new build mainly introduces support for VMware Infrastructure 3 and new guest OSes like Microsoft Windows Vista and Sun Solaris 10.

Download a trial version here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

One year after its launch, Qumranet finally arranged first conference about its virtualization platform, KVM, which is now part of Linux kernel since version 2.6.20.

KVM Forum 2007 will take place in Tucson, Arizona, from August 29 to 31, and will put on stage very intersting sessions, presented by speakers from Qumranet, IBM, Intel AMD and others. Among interesting sessions there are:

• KVM Lite, No Hardware Support, Fewer Calories
• VT Roadmap, Hybrid Virtualization, Power Management, Fat vs Thin Hypervisor
• Standards Based Systems Management Solution for KVM
• KVM Live Migration

Look at the whole agenda here. Register for it here.

The virtualization.info Events Calendar has been updated accordingly.

This year IDG arranged a new event about newest technologies taking a main interest in moder datacenters, including virtualization, HPC and grid computing.

The event will take place in San Francisco, from August 6 to 9, and virtualization has a whole track with an exceptional keynote performed by VMware President, Diane Greene, and eight sessions:

• Improving TCO in NextGen Data Centers through Implementing Virtualization and Blade Servers
• Grid – Distributed Computing at Scale
• Case Study: Revolutionary Solutions for the Data Center of the Future
• Building a Roadmap to the Next Generation Data Center
• Global File Virtualization: Over 1 Billion Served
• Virtualization And Beyond
• Net-ing a Greener Data Center
• Pervasive Orchestration for the NGDC

Register for it here.

The virtualization.info Events Calendar has been updated accordingly.

Quoting from the VirtualLogix official announcement:

VirtualLogix, Inc., the Real-Time Virtualization company, today announced that it has secured $16 Million in Series B financing. This funding includes participation from new investors, Esprit Capital Partners, who led the round, and Intel Capital. Current investors, Atlas Venture and Index Ventures also contributed to the Series B funding.

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As part of the investment, Tom Bradley, partner at Esprit Capital Partners, will join the Board of VirtualLogix and John Mascarenas, from Intel Capital, will join the Board as an Observer. VirtualLogix has raised a total of 28 million dollars to date with investors that include Atlas Venture, Cisco Systems, Esprit Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Index Ventures…

Quoting from the Invirtus official announcement:

Invirtus, Inc., a premier provider of virtualization management software, today announced the appointment of Andy McCartney as Vice President of Marketing.

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McCartney joins Invirtus from Atlanta-based OpenSpan where he was vice president of marketing. In this role he was pivotal in establishing the company’s pioneering position and marketing function in the high growth application integration and automation space, where virtualized desktops were increasingly critical to end-user productivity. Prior to OpenSpan, McCartney led channel marketing at Atlanta-based Vocalocity, a software innovator in the telecommunications and VoIP marketplace, where he was responsible for establishing relationships and enablement programs for OEMs, ISVs, SIs and VARs. McCartney was also director of entrepreneurial services at eHatchery, an Atlanta-based high-tech incubator for technology companies where he advised startups with their IP development, go-to market strategy, fundraising and execution. He originates from the UK, and has enjoyed many dynamic marketing roles for European and US software companies large and small, including a global product marketing role for executive information systems at Information Builders, Inc. in both London and New York…

While the company pushes news about new Vice President of Marketing, it stays silent about its new Vice President of Product Engineering, Scott Herold, leaving Vizioncore and confirming tight relationship between these companies and Quest.

Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

Veeam Software, an innovative provider of software for managing virtual servers, has appointed industry veteran George Sidoris as worldwide vice president of sales.

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Most recently, Sidoris led direct sales and systems integrator programs for the Federal Government sales team at Quest Software. He came to Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software, where he worked with both private- and public-sector accounts. During his tenure at Aelita, Sidoris more than doubled revenue, created and led the public sector sales organization, and was personally instrumental in securing multi-million-dollar transactions. Earlier, Sidoris built and led sales teams at a number of small technology organizations, as well as at Computer Associates International (CA). He began his career in information systems operations management with several Cleveland-area companies…