VKernel
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| Private | |
| Industry | Virtual appliances |
| Founded | USA (2007) |
| Headquarters | Andover, Massachusetts USA |
Key people | Alex Bakman, Founder |
| Products |
VKernel vOperations Suite™ vOPS™ Performance Analyzer vOPS Capacity Manager vOPS Optimizer vOPS Reporting & Chargeback |
| Revenue | Not disclosed |
| Website | www.vkernel.com |
VKernel Corporation is a provider of performance and capacity management products for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized infrastructures. VKernel makes virtualization management software to simplify the tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance bottlenecks. VKernel officially became a part of Dell Software[1] in September 2012. VKernel products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning and predicting capacity utilization and performance bottlenecks. Used by over 50,000 system administrators, the products have proven their ability to maximize capacity utilization, reduce virtualization costs and improve application performance.
In 2010, VKernel won the “Best of VMworld 2010”[2] Gold Award for Virtualization Management
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners co-led a $4,600,000 first round Series A funding for VKernel in early 2008.[3] Then in May 2009, VKernel received $7M in Series B funding led by Longworth Venture Partners and joined by prior investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.[4]
Alex Bakman, founder of VKernel, is a serial entrepreneur and holder of domestic and international patents. He founded Ecora Software (1999) and Cleversoft (1994), which was subsequently acquired by Candle Corporation. His companies have all specialized in producing management reporting solutions.