VMware signed an agreement to acquire an Israeli firm called Wanova, with the goal of enabling virtual desktop management on offline end point devices. This is according to a blog post from earlier this week by Scott Davis, the CTO of the virtualization giant’s VDI group.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the official release, but local publication Haaretz believes the transaction is worth approximately $100 million.

Wanova’s flagship product is Mirage, a replication and layering solution with one particular feature that evidently managed to draw VMware’s attention: the platform caches and executes images on the client side. View does the same thing only remotely, using a graphics protocol that requires an internet connection.

The company has plans to integrate Mirage with VMware Fusion, which will allow extend its portfolio’s reach to not online offline machines but also virtual OS environments.

Davis elaborated more on the actual software and why his company considered it to be a good enough investment:

“As a standalone product, Wanova Mirage broadens our EUC offerings by bringing many of the operational and centralized management benefits associated with VMware View to laptops and physical systems. This means both native user experience through local execution and disconnected access.

The benefits include push-button image restore/recompose with user state preservation, desktop DR, far more reliable patch management and a variety of migration use cases.”

Earlier this month EMC, VMware’s majority stakeholder, announced that it too has acquired a Middle-Eastern firm. The storage giant agreed to pay $430 million for XtremeIO, a maker of storage solutions that was in the very early stages of initial growth prior the merger.

SSD technology is one of the big highlights of this week’s EMC World gathering. Among other things, clients such as Goldman Sachs have been invited to demonstrate the advantages they’ve seen after upgrading in their infrastructures.