It looks like VMware is getting more interested in what’s happening inside the virtual machine after all. I’ve had a few discussions with VMware over the years, and they made it sound as if they were somewhat akin to a shipping company, moving around the packages but not worried about what was actually inside […]

A new startup prepares to enter the virtualization market: DynamicOps.
The company, which didn’t publish a formal announcement yet, was founded in US in early 2008 as spinout of Credit Suisse.
Its founder and CTO, Leslie Muller, comes from Credit Suisse while its CEO and VP of Marketing, Rich Krueger and Rich Bourdeau, come from […]

DC-based iSekurity has raised an initial $11M from PE firm Equity 11. iSekurity’s marketing spin is that it is the the largest collection of former federal agents in the US. The new Elliot Ness gang is on a mission to fight identity theft.
iSekurity sells protection to corporations to shield both customers and employees, as well […]

Mocana, a San Francisco, Calif. startup that makes security software for non-PC devices like PDAs and DVRs, has raised $7 million in its second round of venture funding.
The company’s software, called the Device Security Framework, attempts to secure communications passing over a network from any device, not just computers.
Southern Cross Venture Partners led the round, […]

At the RSA Conference 2008, Montego Networks™, an innovative provider of policy enforcement, access control and secure switching for virtual networks, today announced its HyperVSecurity™ Alliance, an initiative allowing third-party vendors to integrate their products with Montego’s HyperVSecurity™ technology platform. Through their integration with Montego’s architecture, technology partners and their customers will be able […]

Solera Networks, the leader in open platform deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances, announced today the availability of its beta version of the free Solera V2P Tap™, expanding the company’s initiative toward enabling complete network visibility. Using the Solera V2P Tap, organizations deploying virtual machines can now leverage their existing investments in network management and […]

Shavlik will soon deliver the industry’s first solution that provides organizations with the ability to assess and remediate the patch levels of their physical servers, online virtual machines and offline virtual machines – in VMware and Microsoft virtual environments.
“The adoption rate of virtualization in the data center has exploded over the last couple of years […]

Imperva, a company that provides application data security, has raised $20 million in a fourth round of financing. The company’s total funding is now $54 million.
Venture Beat covered the Foster City, Calif.-company back in 2006, when chief executive Shlomo Kramer (who co-founded the successful security firewall company Check Point Software Technologies) them Imperva stands out […]

A large round of $27 million has gone to IT automation software maker Tideway, which helps automate and streamline some of the processes that information technology departments generally do manually.
The company, which is based in New York and London, has software that can examine a company’s IT infrastructure and use the resulting data to create […]

Imprivata is a Lexington, Mass. company that is working on single sign-on authentication technology, which consolidates all of a corporate user’s accounts to a single password and adds additional security measures to prevent hackers.
The company’s software works together with physical location trackers like keycards, so that an employee’s account will be unusable if, for instance, […]