copilot said:
"Certainly! Virtual Computer, founded by Alex Vasilevsky, was a venture-backed software company based in the Boston area. They specialized in developing intelligent desktop virtualization solutions. Here are some key details about Virtual Computer:
Product: Their flagship product, NxTop, combined centralized management with local execution on an enhanced Xen-based type-1 hypervisor. This hypervisor ran directly on end-user devices, delivering native performance and mobility12.
Technology: Virtual Computer’s core technologies included:
A managed client-hypervisor that ran on bare-metal PCs across a wide range of hardware platforms.
A layering technology that separated applications, profiles, and data for independent management.
A mechanism to integrate a centralized management system with the type-1 managed hypervisor running on end-user PCs1.
Funding and Acquisition:
The company was founded in November 2007 by Alex Vasilevsky.
Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners invested $20 million in funding.
In May 2012, Virtual Computer was acquired by Citrix1.
Partnerships:
In March 2011, Virtual Computer collaborated with Lenovo to optimize NxTop on Lenovo’s business-oriented systems, including select models of ThinkCentre desktops and ThinkPad laptops'
