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Pano Logic, the desktop virtualization start-up with indulgent backers, has picked up a $20 million C round led by the Mayfield Fund, which took a flyer on Compaq, SGI and Citrix. That makes $44 million altogether, a handsome figure indeed these days of tight VC pocketbooks, and should get it to breakeven.
Aside from development, the company apparently spent its $18 million B round tripling sales last year to 24,000 units selling $5 million worth of its so-called zero client platform, which is supposed to redefine the economics of endpoint computing, knocking PCs and thin clients for a loop in the process.
The new money is for development and global expansion.

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Ok, I admit it. At first I didn’t have a clue what the point of VMware’s new “Get it off the Board Agenda” site had to do with promoting cloud adoption. In a nutshell VMware has created a new viral marketing campaign geared toward the idea of keeping executives out of the decision process for buying cloud related services. But why? Doesn’t this seem somewhat counter productive, or does it?

First I suppose you need to get into the head of who’s buying cloud products and services today. For service providers and telco’s this probably means an SVP of some sort has been given the job of defining a revenue generating cloud strategy and service offering, so I’m not sure if this person would be the target for the campaign.

It’s probably more likely geared toward the end customers, the customers of my customers if you will. The Google’s, Amazons, Salesforce and Microsoft’s style clouds and how they’re being adopted. The random developer or business unit with a problem to solve. The classic “New York Times” cloud story comes to mind. The story goes something like this, Derek Gottfrid, random NYT programmer had to solve a very hard problem with no time or money. So without prior permission he goes to Amazon Web Services where he leverages the power of EC2 and the free open source Hadoop project. With in a few hours he is able build a cloud application to utilize hundreds of machines concurrently and process a 150 years worth of data in less than 36 hours at next to no cost. Yup, it’s called bottom up adoption.

So what is VMware promoting you ask? Bottom up user innovation and frictionless IT procurement policies. Instead of putting up road blocks to innovation VMware is saying empower your employees by giving them self service tools that allow them to do things never possible before. Personally, I think the board room angle may be a little off, but generally I think they are on the right track.

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Yesterday VMware acquired several products from EMC’s Ionix management portfolio: Server Configuration Manager (formerly Configuresoft), FastScale, Application Discovery Manager (formerly nLayers), and Service Manager (formerly Infra). In my opinion, the move makes sense because the products will get considerably more…

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In a move to enter the burgeoning SaaS-based IT management market, Citrix Online announced its acquisition of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Paglo Labs on Wednesday. The first fruits of the acquisition is an integrated web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting IT infrastructure.

Dubbed GoToManage, the new service lets Citrix Online tap into the growing demand for software-as-a-service (Saas)-based IT management, a market Forrester Research predicts will reach $4 billion in 2013. Citrix Online is positioning the latest addition to its online services portfolio as an affordable alternative to premise-based software

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Cisco is not going to renew HP’s long-time systems integrator contract when it expires on April 30.
That means HP won’t be a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partner anymore because Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partners get proprietary Cisco information like product roadmaps and discounts and that’s kinda silly when HP and Cisco are competing for business.
Cisco sent its senior VP of worldwide partner organization Keith Goodwin out to deliver this message on YouTube.
He said Cisco’s “relationship with HP has evolved from a partner to companies with different and conflicting visions of how to deliver value to companies” and that “for Cisco to lead market transitions… we must align with and invest in partners who share our network-centric vision.”

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VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the data center and to the cloud, and EMC Corporation — the… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today announced that company executives will present at four upcoming investor conferences. Eduardo Fleites,… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Keynote World Media, today unveiled the speaker line-up for the 2 nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum ( www.cloudwf.com ) in London. Taking place… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Server virtualisation is a top choice for IT investments in this current economical climate. Learn how it will enable you to reduce cost and maximise utilisation.
Published by: ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

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Server virtualisation is a top choice for IT investments in this current economical climate. Learn how it will enable you to reduce cost and maximise utilisation.
Published by: ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

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