VMware Buys CloudVolumes to Beef Up Virtual Desktops

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

VMWare is pressing deeper into cloud Relevant Products/Services technologies with its latest acquisition. The virtualization Relevant Products/Services and cloud infrastructure Relevant Products/Services company just bought a real-time Relevant Products/Services application delivery technology provider called CloudVolumes. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

CloudVolumes’ technology makes it possible for enterprises to deliver native applications to virtualized environments on demand, which fills a gap in VMware’s portfolio of software solutions. CloudVolumes customers use the solutions for terminal servers, desktops, and servers, eliminating lock-ins of service providers and hypervisors…

"Customers are looking to modernize their existing Windows application delivery architecture to be more like mobile Relevant Products/Services IT," said Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president and general manager of Desktop Products in End-User Computing at VMware. "The combination of CloudVolumes and VMware Horizon will allow customers to build a real-time application delivery system Relevant Products/Services that enables all applications to be centrally managed, always available and up to date, and delivered to virtualized environments for desktop, server or cloud on demand."…

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