Nutanix inks deal to swallow desktop apps-as-a-service cloud flinger • The Register

Hyperconverged participant Nutanix has agreed to purchase Body, a provider of desktop apps-as-a-service, for an undisclosed sum.

The San Jose storage agency is hoping to up its on-premises VDI choices because it builds out its cloud providers with the acquisition.

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Body, also referred to as Mainframe2, was based in 2012 by Ivan Vuckovic, Marjan Panic, and CEO Nikola Bozinovic as a cloud workstation platform, offering desktop purposes as service. The agency permits purchasers to show high-powered, compute-intensive apps streamed from the cloud to a browser on a low-powered desktop or pocket book.

Though described as a type of VDI, it is not likely conventional digital desktop infrastructure as you want a desktop or different web browser-running gadget to entry it. Boxinovic has blogged: "We have centered on ... the supply protocol that makes digital desktop and app supply potential for any software on the planet."

Body customers can run graphically intense 3D instruments for visualization, science and engineering, and design by means of an HTML5-capable browser. Its software program runs consumer apps on servers within the cloud and delivers the consumer interface to the end-point gadget browser as an optimised H.264 video stream.

Clients embody Adobe, Autodesk, Siemens, VMware and others.

Nutanix mentioned it was trying to "deal with buyer necessities for within the midmarket, whereas persevering with its long-standing help for large-scale VDI initiatives delivered by way of enterprise knowledge centres. This consists of continued help for VMware Horizon View, in addition to remaining Citrix Prepared licensed for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp."

The hope is that the hyperconverged agency's clients will be capable to ship desktops-as-a-service (DaaS) to their customers from a number of clouds.

US-headquartered Body, which has engineers based mostly in Serbia, took in a $16m A-round in Might final yr, together with a few seed rounds in 2014, with one being for $2.5m, plus a $10m enterprise spherical in June 2015 – that is $28.5m recognized funding.

It has a number of marquee clients and a slick, cloud-native product. Nutanix is prone to have paid moderately greater than $28.5m for Body.

Body will probably be obtainable following the closing of the acquisition on third-party clouds from AWS and Azure. Availability on the Nutanix Xi Cloud and Google Cloud Platform will probably be introduced at a later date. ®

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