Two companies off the radar find each other. Just before Christmas 2018, Corel Corporation had announced plans to acquire Parallels, creating a surprise package for many industry observers. The tech commenting community seems to fall into two categories: those people familiar with Corel and those familiar with Parallel because many of the comments were along the lines of … [Read more...] about Corel Corporation acquires Parallels
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StratusCore introduces digital escrow service for digital content
The extension to Virtual Studio also adds a virtual workstation service for content creation and game development. Digital content production vendor StratusCore has introduced a significant update to its Virtual Studio service for digital content creators in media and entertainment and game development. New features and services include Digital Escrow, a business framework … [Read more...] about StratusCore introduces digital escrow service for digital content
Demand for desktop CAD hardware expected to decline
Use of mobile and virtual workstation use of CAD tools will increase, according to new research survey. A recent survey of engineering and other CAD-using firms reveals spending will go down for desktop PCs and up for mobile products and virtual workstations for CAD use. The data comes as part of the Worldwide CAD Trends 2016 Survey from Business Advantage. Survey results … [Read more...] about Demand for desktop CAD hardware expected to decline
Looking inside: Frame workstation in the cloud
Company betting many adopters of remote, virtualized computing will prefer the cloud. By Alex Herrera Building up an IT environment to support complex visual workloads was never easy, but at least it was straightforward. You bought a bunch of high-performance workstations, one for each desk and perhaps one for the road, supported by servers for backup and offloading compute … [Read more...] about Looking inside: Frame workstation in the cloud
Numecent rounds up $15.5 million Series B investment
Deutsche Telekom again leads the investment round. Specializing in client-side virtualization has been a key to “disruptive growth.” Cloudpaging expert Numecent today announced it has raised $15.5 million in a major Series-B funding round, bringing the total funding to date in the company to approximately $38 million. Deutsche Telekom, who led the Series-A funding round, … [Read more...] about Numecent rounds up $15.5 million Series B investment