With a surprising move Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Sentillion, the US startup that launched in summer 2006 the virtualisation product called vThere. The company’s press announcement doesn’t mention at all vThere, solely focusing on the startup presence in the healthcare industry and its solution there. vThere is what we call here at virtualisation.info a platform wrapper . It’s a piece of software that integrates with a hosted virtualisation platform and wraps its virtual machines in a security layer.

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