
Virtual Foresight, which provides policy-based management and automation capabilities, is scheduled to become generally available later this spring.
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The software also allows IT staff to associate business attributes, such as owner, functional group and trust level, with each VM.

Once installed, the software provides details around virtual-machine configurations, including patches, hot fixes and applications. Available now, Virtual Insight runs on hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix XenSource. What company offers: The Virtual Essentials suite includes two products: Virtual Insight and Virtual Foresight. Management: Michael Harper, CEO and president, formerly held positions with IBM and USinternetworking John Suit, principal-founder and CTO, previously founded and served as CTO at SilentRunner, a company acquired by CA.įunding: $10 million in Series A funding in November 2007, led by Fairhaven Capital Partners and Globespan Capital Partners.

Where company got its name: Company executives combined the idea of embedded autonomics - which are essential to managing virtual environments - to come up with Embotics. Why it’s worth watching: "Embotics is coming at the problem of managing VMs from a broad, long-range view, incorporating inventory, usage, managing resources, applications and the policies that apply along the duration of the VM’s life cycle," says Rich Ptak, founder and principal analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates. The software can track each VM throughout its entire life cycle, and associates specific policies around access, authorization and end of life with each VM. What company offers: V-Commander software, which became generally available in December 2007, provides centralized policy-based management of VMs. Embotics acquired the development team and technology of Symbium and worked to apply it to virtual server management.įunding: Privately funded by angel investors. Management: Jay Litkey, founder, president and CEO, also founded Symbium, a company that focused on autonomic computing and the automated management of IT infrastructure. (While all of the start-ups claim to have customers, none were willing to name them.) Here we shine a spotlight on seven start-ups that have taken on the challenge of managing virtual worlds. We will see lots of competitive entry in this space," says Lars Leckie, an associate at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, which recently led a $4.6 million first round of funding for VKernel.
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Those technology gaps have financial analysts bullish on start-ups offering products that install easily, track VMs from inception to destruction, and essentially approach managing a heterogeneous virtual environment in a whole new way.
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"Add-ons to traditional tools are not enough, and there are big gaps in the market across different disciplines such as patch management, configuration management, discovery, inventory and more."

"The larger, established management vendors arrived late to managing virtual servers because ultimately they approached it as though it was just another operating system," says Andi Mann, research director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
