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Desktop Virtualization startup Wanova has exited stealth mode and raised $13 million in a first round of funding from Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Opus Capital.

Wanova has also announced a new architecture called Distributed Desktop Virtualization (DDV), which support and protect desktops and laptops, particularly remote and mobile endpoints. The Wanova DDV solution centralizes the entire desktop contents in the data center for management and protection purposes while distributing the execution of desktop workloads to the endpoints for superior user experience.

“IT managers face significant challenges to increase control, ensure compliance and reduce the operational costs of their desktop infrastructure. At the same time, they are tasked with optimizing the end-user experience,” said Ilan Kessler, CEO and co-founder of Wanova. “Wanova redefines distributed desktop management, so IT has the control they need, and end-users have the productivity they want.”

Industry analysts have estimated that desktop virtualization is a multi-billion dollar market. Gartner forecasts that licenses for hosted virtual desktops, which numbered 300,000 in 2008, have the potential to grow to 50 million by 2013.

"We’ve been seeing a gradual shift towards worker mobility evidenced by the notebook sales beginning to surpass those of desktop PCs. At the same time that workers are becoming increasingly mobile and distributed, IT is being tasked with reducing costs and increasing control and compliance. Wanova’s new architecture is a holistic solution that addresses these challenges and can generate serious attention in distributed enterprises,” said Michael Rose, Research Analyst at IDC.

Wanova was founded in April 2008 by Kessler and Dr. Issy Ben-Shaul, the company CTO. Kessler was co-founder and CEO of Actona, which was acquired by Cisco in 2004. Ben-Shaul was the CTO of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco.

Wanova is headquartered in San Jose California with a development center in Netanya, Israel. The company's solutions are currently in field testing with customers.

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