WALTHAM, MA, VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software in virtualized environments, announced that it has closed a $10 million B-round of funding, financed by returning investors Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. VMTurbo will use the funding to expand product development, customer support, sales and marketing.

VMTurbo is the only virtualization management solution to combine real-time operational performance metrics with unique analytics to drive a broad set of workload management actions that assure both application performance and most efficient use of virtualized and cloud environments.

"VMTurbo is emerging as the leader in automating the management of virtualized cloud infrastructures," said Peter Bell, General Partner at Highland Capital Partners. "Both service providers and enterprises are embracing VMTurbo's platform to realize the compelling ROI that cloud computing can provide."

"Customers are finding that VMTurbo's unique solution is the only holistic means of managing all resources in virtualized environments," said Ben Nye, Managing Director at Bain Capital. "These businesses depend on their Applications, and their applications depend on VMTurbo."

Named by Gartner to its "Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2011" report, VMTurbo has gained significant, worldwide market traction since it was founded in 2009. VMTurbo is enabling cloud service providers and enterprises - including British Telecom, Omnicare and L-3 Communications - to maximize the ROI of their virtualized infrastructure.

"Bain Capital Investments and Highland Capital Partners have been great partners. We are pleased that they are investing in VMTurbo's next growth wave," said VMTurbo president and CEO Lou Shipley.