VKernel Raises $4.6 Million in First Round - Portsmouth, NH

VKernel, a Portsmouth-based provider of appliances for managing virtual server environments, has raised $4.6 million in its first round of venture capital, which was co-led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners. VKernel, which first launched in January 2007, is building a line of "plug-and-play" virtual appliances designed to quickly solve systems management challenges as organizations migrate to virtual server environments. The company's appliance is certified by EMC's VMware, and allows IT groups to monitor resource consumption of each virtual machine, resource pool, host, or cluster, according to VKernel.

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