Grid Computing News : Aspeed Gets Acquired

Aspeed Software, which made a name for itself with technology for grid-enabling applications, has been acquired by SIMtone Corp. SIMtone, a desktop virtualization and utility computing firm, said it will use Aspeed's application acceleration and optimization solutions to get the most out of server and hardware platforms and virtualization platforms from VMware, Microsoft and XenSource. Aspeed Software is used by financial firms to boost compute-intensive risk management applications in multi-core, cluster, grid and virtualized environments, and to transition from shared memory Unix systems to Linux- and Windows-based platforms. SIMtone CEO and chairman Mario Dal Canto said in a statement that "Aspeed technology broadly applied to the SIMtone end-to-end Virtual Cloud Computing platform will deliver an unparalleled virtual desktop user experience and expand the scalability and availability of the applications and servers." SIMtone's virtual desktop services use the company's universal dialtone technology to let users access their virtual desktops from PCs, terminals and mobile devices, helping organizations to save on technology infrastructure costs typically associated with distributed computing environments. We were delighted to see the number of clients that we have in common." SIMtone will continue to support and expand the Aspeed customer base and relationships with Intel, Microsoft and other business partners.... read more