Virtual Computer

Founded by Alex Vasilevsky, Virtual Computer is a venture-backed software company in the Boston area that produces desktop virtualization products, which combine centralized management with local execution on a hypervisor running on PCs. Virtual Computer has developed a type-1 hypervisor that runs directly on end-user PCs, delivering native PC performance and mobility. By running the workload on the PC, Virtual Computer enables companies to have centralized management without servers, storage, and networking required for server-hosted VDI. The technology supports shared image management, enabling an IT professional to manage thousands of desktops and laptops the same way that they would manage one.[1]

Virtual Computer
Industrysoftware
FoundedNovember 2007
FounderAlex Vasilevsky
Dan McCall
HeadquartersBoston
ProductsNxTop® Enterprise
Servicesdesktop virtualization

History

Virtual Computer was founded in November 2007 by the founder of Virtual Iron, Alex Vasilevsky, and the former co-founder and General Manager of Guardent, Dan McCall. The company was backed by investors including Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners.[2]

Funding

Virtual Computer has received over $20 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, Flybridge Capital, and Citrix.

Partnerships

In March 2011, Virtual Computer announced its collaboration with Lenovo to optimize Virtual Computer’s NxTop client virtualization and management solution on Lenovo's business-oriented systems. These include select models of Lenovo's ThinkCentre A and M series desktops and ThinkPad T and X series laptops.[3]

Virtual Computer's NxTop desktop virtualization solution is compatible with the previous three generations of Intel Core vPro processor family, including the Intel Core vPro i3, i5, and i7 processors, as well as all platforms with Intel Virtualization Technology.[4]

Product

Virtual Computer's product is the NxTop® Enterprise. It released the fourth version 4 of its client hypervisor, NxTop®4 Enterprise, in August 2011. NxTop combines a centralized management system with an enhanced Xen-based client hypervisor to create a single platform for any combination of local desktops, remote VDI sessions, and server- and cloud-based applications. NxTop provides IT control of the end-point through advanced management capabilities in NxTop Center.[5]

Virtual Computer’s core technologies include a managed client-hypervisor that runs on a bare-metal PC across a wide set of hardware platforms; a layering technology that pulls apart applications, profiles, and data so they can be managed independently; and a mechanism to tightly integrate a centralized management system with a type-1 managed hypervisor running on end-user PCs.[6]

References
  1. Virtual Strategy Magazine (July 22, 2009). "Take a Walk on the Client Side".
  2. Robin Wauters (August 29, 2008). "Stealth "Laptop Virtualization" Company Virtual Computer Readying Launch".
  3. Zewde Yeraswork (March 8, 2011). "Virtual Computer Brings Optimized NxTop Client To Lenovo Enterprise PCs".
  4. Dan Kusnetzky (January 24, 2011). "Virtual Computer supports next generation X86 processors".
  5. Kenneth van Surksum (August 30, 2011). "Release: Virtual Computer NxTop 4".
  6. "Virtual Computer Releases NxTop 1.1 with System Workbench™". Virtualization Journal. June 30, 2009.
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