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Article: Desktop virtualization start-up Wanova emerges from stealth mode.
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- Network World Middle East
- Article date:
- August 20, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)
A desktop virtualization start-up called Wanova is emerging from stealth mode Wednesday having secured $13 million in funding to build technology for managing and protecting mobile and remote desktops.
Wanova was founded last year by CEO Ilan Kessler and CTO Issy Ben-Shaul, who previously co-founded Actona, which made software that manages the backup and storage of files from remote offices and was purchased by Cisco in 2004 for $82 million.
Wanova's Distributed Desktop Virtualization (DDV) software provides centralized management by storing a primary copy of an operating system image in the data center, while storing a cached ...