Israel Science Technology

"Early this year GigaSpaces will make its first formal entry into the Asia Pacific market, and expand its local sales presence in additional US and European markets,” said GigaSpaces CEO Yaron Benvenisti. “We continue our investment in open source projects and the developer community, and likely experience a doubling of staff by year end to support these initiatives."

GigaSpaces provides infrastructure software solutions that deliver unparalleled dynamic scalability for high-volume transactional applications, without the overhead and complexity inherent in traditional multi-tier development & deployment environments. Its solutions are being adopted across vertical industries such as financial services, telecommunications and law-enforcement for mission-critical applications, including: Societe Generale, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Dow Jones, Virgin Mobile, Nortel, and Hutchinson 3G.

"GigaSpaces is well positioned to build on its momentum in key customer verticals including financial services which is important to FTVentures," said Liron Gitig, principal at FTVentures, the newest investor in the company and board member. "The company is in a unique position to significantly change the way applications are designed and built. This is the type of technology our financial institution partners have demonstrated a strong eagerness to evaluate and adopt."

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Enterprise virtual desktop provider Kidaro secures $10 million financing round. Opus Capital led the round, joining existing investors Genesis Partners and Storm Ventures.

"Managing and securing end user computers while allowing users to personalize their work environment is a complex task in most enterprises" says Dan Avida, General Partner at Opus Capital. "Kidaro solves this important problem very elegantly".

Founded in 2005, Kidaro leverages desktop virtualization technology to provide the missing key to solving enterprise IT challenges: from deployment and management, to security and usability. Kidaro’s flagship product, Kidaro Managed Workspace, enables organizations to extend their desktop environment securely to users anywhere, using a serverless, scalable solution.

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