More acquisitions by VMWare

VMware Inc. (VMW) on Monday announced its seventh acquisition of the past year, while rumors are circulating that it may be near completing an eighth, underscoring the land-grab nature of the virtualization sector today.

The company's latest acquisition is of Thinstall, a privately held application vitrualization software company that it bought for undisclosed terms. VMware said Thinstall's technology would help it expand its desktop virtualization capabilities to help customers better maintain desktop environments. VMware's core virtualization technology was built to consolidate the servers that run in the back office, but enterprises are increasingly looking to streamline other parts of the network. In addition, as more and more companies deploy virtual machines to enable multiple applications to run on a single server, they are requiring new technologies to manage these virtual environments.

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