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VIEO Closes $15M: Page 2 of 2

Nevertheless, InfiniBand's future is far from certain today, as these vendors have yet to actually ship InfiniBand-enabled servers. VIEO's latest product is at least aimed at a sector that analysts say IT managers will have to spend money on.

Like DataCore Software Corp. and FalconStor Software Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), VIEO is developing a network-based appliance that enables improved application management by measuring, analyzing, and affecting the servers and storage on which these apps run. VIEO is one of a crowd of companies targeting the $12 billion infrastructure and systems management market, according to Forrester Research Inc.

"In trying to tame their tangles of networks, servers, storage, and software, organizations have spent millions on management frameworks from firms like IBM Tivoli, Hewlett-Packard Co., and Computer Associates International Inc. (CA)