Viewfinity last week announced $9 million in B-round funding from Giza Venture Capital, JK&B Capital and Longworth Venture Partners.
This announcement comes in tandem with the expansion of Viewfinity’s advisory team and newest board members, Greg Butterfield and Nilanjana Bhowmik.
Systems management icon Greg Butterfield, former CEO and Chairman of Altiris, is renowned for his business achievements that include the growth and mergers/acquisitions of WordPerfect to Novell, Vinca to Legato, Altiris to Symantec and Omniture to Adobe. Greg’s proven success in the systems management space and his alignment with Viewfinity’s vision and direction will help speed Viewfinity’s growth and ensure that business decisions and technology vision are ahead of the market.
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, Viewfinity offers cloud-based systems and privilege management solutions that allow IT departments to focus on managing systems and not the infrastructure. The cloud-computing model enables systems management support almost immediately so that administrators can begin managing the environment from anywhere and at anytime, for both local and mobile workers. Viewfinity’s expertise in application virtualization serves as the foundation for new levels of advancement in cloud-based systems management, providing more granularity and control than ever before possible with traditional systems management platforms.
Viewfinity introduces several new business and technology icons to its Advisory Board:
- Dwain Kinghorn, former CTO of Altiris and VP with Symantec, Founder & CEO of Computing Edge
- Stuart Schaefer, former CTO and Founder of Softricity and Partner Architect at Microsoft
- Srinivasa Venkataraman, former CEO of Appstream and VP R&D for ZoneLabs
- Benny Schnaider, former CEO and Founder of Qumranet, Pentacom and co-founder of P-Cube
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