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UC4 Software, a provider of Intelligent Service Automation and IT process optimization solutions, today announced its board of directors has appointed Jason Liu as UC4’s chief executive officer, effective immediately.

Liu was most recently president and CEO of Univa UD, a recognized leader in cloud systems management software.

His technology and management experience includes serving as CEO of Callisto Software, a mobile systems management company acquired by Novell, and as CEO of Intrinsic Technologies, a Microsoft infrastructure software and services provider. Liu also previously served as CFO and senior vice president of Corporate Services for Ravisent Technologies.

While at Ravisent, Liu led the company through multiple acquisitions and spearheaded an IPO that brought the company to a $1 billion market value.

Liu also currently serves on the boards of Anysource, a digital media software provider, and Ecologic Technologies, a clean technology company in the green building materials market. He holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Washington University.

VMware has announced that Jeff Casale has joined VMware as senior vice president and general manager of business operations for the Americas region.

With more than two decades of experience in U.S. and international markets, storage and information management software and global sales and service, Casale will be responsible for driving revenue growth and leadership for VMware in the Americas region, growing the company’s partner ecosystem, and extending its technology leadership through new business development initiatives.

Reporting to Eschenbach, Casale, 45, will lead strategic planning, go-to-market and management of key functions for the Americas region including sales, channels, services and field marketing. Casale will represent VMware in the marketplace with responsibility for the region’s revenue generation and its approach to customers, partners and prospects.

Casale joins VMware from EMC, where most recently he held the position of senior vice president for global channels, OEMs and go-to-market strategy. Under Jeff’s leadership, EMC made significant investments in under-penetrated and emerging markets and transformed its approach for addressing the mid-market, which helped EMC better support and expand revenues through channels. He has also held executive and operational leadership positions at EMC for sales and service across Latin America and for EMC’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Casale holds a bachelor of science in finance from Boston College.

Red Hat has hired a Novell veteran to lead the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) push into the IT channel, The VAR Guy has learned.

Kevin Pereau, Novell’s former director of ISV ecosystems, joined Red Hat about six weeks ago.

Cloudsoft, a provider of cloud computing software and services that drive application mobility, today announced the appointment of John Mathon, inventor of the TIB, to the company’s strategic advisory board.

Mathon joins existing advisory board members Linda Bernardi, Rich Miller and Shawn Findlan to support the Cloudsoft executive team and help drive its next stage of growth.

While still at MIT, Mathon met Vivek Ranadive and together they founded TIBCO, a leading provider of middleware, SOA and business integration software. In 2000, Mathon founded and served as CTO for Slam Dunk Networks, which provided reliable communication over the Internet. Most recently, he founded Mathon Systems, an enterprise software company that was awarded four patents in the areas of metadata capture and management for file systems.

Cloudsoft’s enterprise class cloud platform, Monterey, implements fine-grained application mobility enabling dynamic change to some or all of the infrastructure used by an application – without any service disruption to end users. A first in the industry, Monterey allows users to easily and rapidly develop, deploy and run mission-critical high performance applications on the platform.

As a result of the rapid industry adoption of Monterey and Cloudsoft’s market position and projected growth, the company also recently secured a new round of funding.