Stealthy virtualization startup makes laptops more secure, manageable

Virtualization technology has made its way to servers, applications and desktop computers.

Next week, a Westford-based tech company plans to fire up operations for a product that would flip-flop the conventional virtualization model with software that replicates the components of a laptop within the laptop itself.
Old Road Computing Corp. plans to publicly launch as Virtual Computer Inc., but the company isn’t revealing many specifics about its virtualization product, nor when it will be released.
The software would be designed to isolate a laptop’s four major components — hardware, operating system, applications and user data — and create versions on the laptop of those components that operate remotely, without a network connection, said CEO Dan McCall, who previously founded Guardent Inc., a Waltham-based security services firm.