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Ziften Names Former Disney CIO Roger Berry To Its Advisory Board

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Ziften Technologies, an enterprise system efficiency company, today announced the appointment of Roger Berry to its advisory board.

Berry has served as a member of the Hewlett Packard Technology Advisory Council and the University of Florida Technology Board, and presently serves on University of Houston-Tier One Advisory Board.

Berry previously served as CIO of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts for over a decade. Prior to Walt Disney, Berry served as VP and CIO of Campbell Soup Company, as well as Tenneco.

He majored in Mathematics, and minored in Computer Science, earning a B.A. from the University of Houston.

Ziften offers enterprise software that empowers organizations to better understand and control applications running across their Windows desktop environments and to automatically eliminate, restrict, or accelerate them based on relative business value.

With extensive experience deploying behavioral software to more than 150 million systems worldwide, Ziften has understanding of Windows process behavior and application performance.

The comany is backed by Fayez Sarofim & Co. and Trellis Partners, and boasts advisory board members including the founder of Tivoli, the founder of iChat and the former President & COO of Waste Management,.

Vembu Acquires CloudNucleus To Boost Data Backup, Recovery Solutions

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Vembu Technologies, a provider of online data protection software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Hosting Providers (MHPs), has announced that it acquired CloudNucleus, a data protection software developer with specific focus on continuous data protection with bare metal backup and disaster recovery for Windows and Linux environments.

Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The addition of CloudNucleus strengthens Vembu’s offerings in the areas of business continuity and disaster recovery, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Bare Metal Recovery (BMR), and protection of virtualized environments and will enhance the ability of Vembu’s service provider partners to offer a superior backup service to their customers.

Further, CloudNucleus’ technical capability, and service delivery will complement Vembu’s established channel and enhance its ability to serve partners and their customers around the globe.

Vembu intends to integrate the technology and operations of CloudNucleus into its existing operations.

Srivatsan Venkatesan will join Vembu as Vice President of Product Management, Storage Products. Vembu and CloudNucleus will integrate engineering and development functions to accelerate the development and delivery of their data protection solutions.

Vyatta Network OS Now Available In Amazon AWS Cloud And For Red Hat KVM Environments

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Vyatta, which specializes in software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, announced that its latest product release, Vyatta Network OS 6.3, is now available as an Amazon Machine Images (AMI), and that it will include compatibility with Red Hat Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisors.

With new AMI custom support packages, Vyatta Network OS 6.3 offers comprehensive network security for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

Using Vyatta Network OS AMI, Amazon cloud customers can now build out secure multi-tier, multi-location architectures within Amazon VPC environments that include the same connectivity, network security and threat protection available from hardware devices in their enterprise datacenters.

Vyatta Network OS 6.3, the latest release of Vyatta’s on-demand networking software, provides IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers a way to secure and connect Red Hat KVM-based datacenters and clouds. The Vyatta Network OS for KVM adds a full virtual network security stack with enterprise-grade router, firewall, VPN, IPS, web filtering, QoS and more.

Release: Oracle Solaris 10 8/11

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Oracle today announced immediate availability of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, which provides enhancements to Oracle Solaris ZFS and Oracle Solaris install technologies, advanced support for the latest SPARC and x86 systems and Oracle Database 11g performance improvements.

Oracle Solaris is an enterprise operating system, providing mission-critical availability, security and performance on both SPARC and x86 systems.

The Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 update includes new features, fixes and hardware support, preserving the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program to guarantee binary compatibility with older Oracle Solaris releases.

Oracle Solaris provides customers with over 11,000 third-party applications on more than 1,000 SPARC and x86 systems.

Qvidian Names Jim Eliason As CFO

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Qvidian, which specializes in cloud computing sales effectiveness applications, today announced that Jim Eliason has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. He will oversee all aspects of finance, legal, and human resources.

Eliason was most recently CFO for Desktone, a privately held, venture-backed company that provides a virtual desktop hosting platform that enables desktops as a service for enterprises.

Earlier in his career, Eliason was CFO for Empirix, a provider of testing and monitoring tools for voice and data applications.

He also held the position of CFO for Narad Networks, a telecommunications provider of broadband solutions to cable operators, where he helped raise more than $30 million of venture capital over two rounds of financing as part of a re-start team.

Eliason holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Bentley College and a B.S. in Accounting from Providence College. He is a licensed CPA in the state of Massachusetts.