Desktone lands $17m in funding

Desktone Inc. of Chelmsford announced today that it has closed $17 million in venture funding.

Desktone is a provider of a unified virtual desktop platform.

Desktone said the Series A funding round was led by Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Lexington and California, and SoftBank Capital, a venture capital firm with offices in Newton and New York.

"As the cost and complexity of managing large-scale PC and server environments becomes overwhelming, the trend toward virtualization is growing exponentially," Ron Fisher, managing partner at SoftBank, said in a statement.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)