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Dell has acquired Oregon-based RNA Networks.
Dell told Austin Business Journal that the deal closed last Thursday for an undisclosed amount.
RNA Networks, which launched in 2006, develops server virtualization, which enables a lone server to appear to operate as multiple servers, each with its own operating system.
Astute Networks, a provider of network and storage-based technologies, today announced the appointment of two executives to its team: Steven Houck, senior vice president of worldwide sales and Jay Kramer, vice president of worldwide marketing. Both executives will report directly to CEO Steve Topper.
As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Houck will be responsible for developing Astute Networks’ global sales strategy and growing company revenue. Prior to joining Astute Networks, Houck held various executive positions at VMware including vice president of worldwide channels and vice president/general manager, Latin America. Houck also served as vice president worldwide SMB sales at EMC where he successfully developed the SMB storage market for EMC Corporation. H
ouck held the position of CEO at Gridtree, a cloud services company serving enterprises throughout Latin America. He has also held various sales leadership positions including executive vice president of worldwide sales at Corel Corporation.
Kramer brings 25 years experience in the technology industry to his role as vice president of worldwide marketing at Astute, where he will spearhead the company’s efforts to build a leadership position in the fast-growing global market for virtualization solutions addressing mid-market and enterprise infrastructure and cloud deployments.
Prior to joining Astute Networks, Kramer was the vice president of worldwide marketing at SEPATON; a vice president of worldwide marketing at iStor; and a vice president of marketing at Maxtor and CDS. Kramer had also held executive positions in sales, marketing and strategic planning at Unisys Corporation.
Nasuni today announced that it has further expanded its management team with the addition of Bill Simpson as the company’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales.
This latest expansion follows Nasuni’s April announcement of the launch of their partner program.
Simpson brings more than twenty years of technology sales experience to Nasuni, much of which he has spent building strong channel and sales organizations for young, fast growing technology companies.
Immediately prior to joining Nasuni, Simpson served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Akorri, a storage and virtualization management company that was acquired by NetApp earlier this year. Prior to Akorri, Simpson was Vice President of Global Channel Sales and Strategy at Virtual Iron Software, a virtualization and virtual infrastructure management company that was bought by Oracle.
Nasuni was founded in 2009 by storage veterans to deliver a secure gateway to cloud storage that makes the cloud feasible for business users. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection.
The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners.
Catbird, provider of security and compliance solutions for virtual, cloud and physical networks, today announced that the company has constituted an Advisory Board and named the first five members.
The board includes industry experts, innovators and specialists in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and security:
– Richard C. Schaeffer, Jr., a former Senior Executive with the National Security Agency (NSA)
– Pravin Kothari, Founder and CEO at CipherCloud, which uses revolutionary technology to provide cloud data protection solutions
– Shaw Chuang, former CTO and VP of Emerging Technologies at PGP Corporation, and, as a Director of Engineering for VMware, a key contributor to the ESX 3.2 release.
– David Bernstein, Managing Director of Cloud Strategy Partners and former VP and GM of Cloud Computing at Cisco
– Sunny Azadeh, President and CEO of Acctuall
Netuitive recently announced its latest release, Netuitive 5.5, predictive analytics software that forecasts, identifies and resolves IT issues before they impact quality of service.
Built for large enterprises, Netuitive 5.5 is a performance management platform for mission-critical applications running in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.
Key 5.5 additions include:
– Flexible One-View Dashboard – Provides a unified performance view of the virtualized data center. Visualizes Workload, Health and Capacity of the virtual data center to provide rich cross-platform insight in a single screen.
– Chargeback (and “Showback”) Reports – Enables IT to provide detailed application utilization and cost analysis reports to business managers. Aligns new pay-per-use models with the financial systems and decision processes of the business.
– Support for Multi-hypervisor environments – New integration with Microsoft Hyper-V increases flexibility and choice. (VMware support already available).
Powered by its patented Behavior Learning Engine, Netuitive’s predictive analytics software is a major advancement in managing the performance of applications and their underlying infrastructures. Netuitive eliminates manual, rules-based approaches with advanced mathematics and predictive analytics that automatically correlates and self-learns the operational behavior of systems and applications across an entire IT environment.
Netuitive’s customers include eight of the world’s 10 largest banks and several global telecommunications firms. They rely on Netuitive to predict degradations and avoid outages for their most critical applications.
The Xen.org community has announced that there is a new maintenance release of Xen available, version 4.1.1. It includes the following changes:
– Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898
– Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very fine-grained access control)
– Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt
– Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.