CloudShare (formerly IT Structures) is a

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provider founded in 2007 in

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. It is now headquartered in

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Services

CloudShare combines aspects of

virtualization In computing, virtualization (abbreviated v12n) is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s wit ...

and advanced features to offer

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

(Saas). Similar to virtual lab automation, CloudShare makes full-featured virtual enterprise environments available online and on-demand. This has applications including developing and testing, pre-sales demos, proofs-of-concept, evaluations, technical training, development and certification of hardware or software and channel enablement. Customers can create multi-machine IT environments in the cloud or upload existing virtual machines. CloudShare supports

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(VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox ) and

operating systems An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

(

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, Ubuntu), and provides templates for new machines with operating systems and even software (such as

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SharePoint is a collection of enterprise content management and knowledge management tools developed by Microsoft. Launched in 2001, it was initially bundled with Windows Server as Windows SharePoint Server, then renamed to Microsoft Office Sh ...

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) preinstalled. Created environments can consist of a single

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or multiple networked machines and are able to operate seamlessly with the user’s physical PC or workstation. These environments can then be saved, replicated and shared with additional users who are free to interact with their own independent replica (or “snapshot”). * CloudShare Enterprise is designed for enterprise-grade applications such as development and testing, virtual training, presales demos, proof of concepts, technical evaluations, and other IT functions. More robust and offering greater compute power and storage, as well as unlimited machines and sharing, CloudShare Enterprise also includes: ** a user management dashboard with analytics tools ** multiple user hierarchies, roles and privileges ** customer branding ** user-interface customization ** integration with Salesforce.com

History

CloudShare was founded in

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in January 2007 by Avner Rosenan, Ophir Kra-Oz and Zvi Guterman, The company was originally named IT Structures. In 2009, CloudShare moved its headquarters to

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. In December 2009, CloudShare closed its series B round of funding, receiving $10 million from

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, and Gemini Capital, bringing total venture capital funding to $16 million. In 2014, Zvi Guterman bought the company back from Sequoia Capital and took it private.{{Cite web, url=https://www.fierceceo.com/technology/zvi-guterman-ceo-at-cloudshare-mounts-comeback-after-purchasing-company, title=Zvi Guterman, CEO at CloudShare, mounts comeback after purchasing company

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Cloud computing providers