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Wanova raises $10M for desktop cloud management service

Wanova , a startup that makes it easy for enterprises to manage a fleet of PCs, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding.

San Jose, Calif.-based Wanova has created the Wanova Mirage software that combines several different technologies to make it far easier for companies to keep their computers updated, backed up, and free of nasty viruses. Thin clients, where the computing is handled in servers, can also achieve this kind of result. But Wanova enables employees to hang on to their full-fledged PCs and still take advantage of their full computing power, without the disadvantages of thin clients. With its design, Wanova says it can give users and companies the best of all worlds: low computing costs, easy management, and powerful computers for employees to use. The company calls this solution a “desktop as a service.”

“We had a vision of where overall desktop virtualization was going to go,” said Sebatiano Tevarotto (pictured right), chief executive of Wanova, in an interview. “We run the desktop in the cloud as a service. That gives you all of the advantages of the cloud infrastructure while leaving the experience of the end user unchanged.”

Wanova’s sales have tripled in the current year. Other companies such as Wyse have created easy-to-manage corporate computers with such characters through “thin client” computing, where much of the computing is done in the internet-connected servers. The user’s own machine does very little computing and merely displays what the server has computed. The problem with thin clients is that they can’t be used without an internet connection, and the clients (generally) aren’t powerful enough to run applications such as high-definition video.

With Mirage, a company installs a small two-megabyte software program on the employee’s laptop or desktop. It adds a software layer known as virtualization.

“The layering is one of our secret sauces,” said Barry Phillips, Wanova chief marketing officer and vice president of sales, in an interview. “Because we let the user take advantage of all of the local computing horsepower, you don’t get a user revolt.

Opus Software Solutions signs a Multi-Million Dollar deal with State ...

The deal to power the world’s largest ATM / POS network

Pune,(AllPayNews): Opus Software Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions to the payments industry has signed a $10 million deal with State Bank of India (SBI) to replace their existing ATM platform with electraSWITCH™. This deal with State Bank Of India (SBI) will power 25,000 ATMs, 500,000 POS devices and Kiosks and authorize 80 million debit cards by next year; and these numbers are expected to double (including ATMs) by 2014, making this the largest installation in the world.

Migration of ATMs has already commenced and would be complete in 6-8 months, making this the fastest migration of an EFT Switch of this scale across the world.

Opus is implementing this solution through its wholly owned subsidiary - ElectraCard Services. Opus is also providing other solutions from its electra suite to enable SBI to implement ‘Go-To-Market’ strategies quickly and deliver value added services to its customers. These include an Internet payment gateway, 3-D Secure authentication software, debit card management software and a fraud management solution.

Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Ramesh Mengawade, CEO, Opus Software and ElectraCard Services said, “Opus has clinched this deal amid stiff global competition and stringent quality & process validations. This is a landmark win for Opus as it will become the largest EFT Switch solution provider in the world by 2014. This deal will further strengthen our market dominance in the payment marketplace in India. We are replicating such success stories nationally and internationally.”

About Opus Software Solutions (P). Ltd.

Opus Software Solutions is a highly specialized and leading provider of technologies, software products and integration services in the payments domain on a global basis. Its solutions are characterized as adaptable, scalable and change responsive and cater to the demanding needs of the payment industry. Over 700+ professionals of Opus combine a wealth of experience, domain expertise, technological prowess and mature processes to deliver market-leading solutions for mission critical OLTP applications for retail payments. Opus has provided solutions for clients in more than 25 countries that deliver millions of sub-second stock transactions, create innovative prepaid card programs, implement card-less ATM withdrawals and integrate multiple channels such as traditional clients, web, mobile and kiosks for seamless service delivery.

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