{"id":1718,"date":"2012-05-23T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/23\/vmware-grabs-wanova-their-end-user-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:02:55","slug":"vmware-grabs-wanova-for-their-end-user-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/vmware-grabs-wanova-for-their-end-user-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware grabs Wanova for their end-user portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualisation experts VMware have acquired turnkey desktop cloud providers Wanova to further bolster their end-user portfolio.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VMware will hope to fully utilise Wanova&rsquo;s Mirage system, which centralises image management of both physical and virtual desktops and splits the desktop image into logical layers, to entail seamless transition between endpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The financial details of the deal remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>VMware currently has a product out which is similar to Mirage in the form of VMware View &ndash; however, as their blog notes, Mirage caches images locally as opposed to View images executing on servers in the data centre and using a remote graphics protocol.<\/p>\n<p>This move continues the prevailing trend of consolidation between various companies; Facebook hiring the vast majority of Lightbox and Google&rsquo;s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility just being two recent examples.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wanova&rsquo;s blog, this move &ldquo;dramatically accelerates the vision [they] have been driving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualisation experts VMware have acquired turnkey desktop cloud providers Wanova to further bolster their end-user portfolio.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nVMware will hope to fully utilise Wanova&rsquo;s Mirage system, which centralises image management of both phys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}