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Vizioncore, provider of virtualization data protection and management solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, today announced the appointment of Evelyne Bourderioux as Southern European sales director.

Reporting to Roger Baskerville, vice president, EMEA, Bourderioux will provide sales leadership and strategic direction in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Bourderioux comes to Vizioncore with more than 30 years of experience in technology sales. Most recently, she held the position of EMEA sales director at NEC SAS, with responsibility for building the company’s new organization and market approach to value solutions selling. Prior to NEC, Bourderioux spent more than four years at VMware, where she served as regional sales manager, France, as well as country sales manager for France. Before VMware, Bourderioux held sales management positions at Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment France, Philips, Sperry, and Bull.

3PAR announced today that it has launched its first sales and customer service office in India and has named Arvind Khurana as country manager.

This move into India is intended to position 3PAR to meet growing demand for technologies to support cloud computing, the virtual datacenter, green IT initiatives, and enhanced infrastructure agility in an economy that has been expanding in the midst of a worldwide recession.

The opening of a new 3PAR sales and customer service office with 12 employees in Bangalore underscores the strength of the Indian economy, and the role that 3PAR intends to play in helping Indian organizations expand in an agile, efficient, and environmentally responsible way.

Based in Delhi, Khurana is responsible for overall sales execution for 3PAR in the country. He was formerly country sales manager for Collabnet Software, where he drove awareness of that company’s collaborative development environment. At Collabnet, Khurana also formed and led the company’s sales organization and forged strategic relationships with enterprise software vendors as well as some of India’s largest systems integration and consulting firms.

The increased commitment to the Indian market is part of 3PAR’s growth strategy in the entire Asia Pacific region, which 3PAR views as critical to the company’s business agenda. Many of 3PAR’s global customers such as Credit Suisse, Savvis, and Verizon have stated plans to expand their presence in these markets and consolidate their businesses in countries throughout the region. 3PAR’s APAC headquarters, headed by Vaughan Woods, is located in Singapore.

BLADE Network Technologies announced the appointment of former EMC executive Eric Shefler as the company’s senior vice president of Worldwide Sales.

Shefler has extensive sales leadership experience in both North America and Europe. Shefler is a native of Canada and will lead BLADE’s global sales organization from Canada.

Shefler joins BLADE after a very distinguished 10-year career at EMC where he was most recently EMEA vice president Enterprise and Global accounts. His responsibilities also included EMC’s EMEA Marketing, Alliances and Networked Storage Sales organizations.

Prior to becoming vice president EMEA for EMC Computer Systems, Eric held a number of increasingly responsible positions at the company, including country manager for Canada and regional vice president for Western and Northern Europe. Prior to that, Eric was regional vice president for Cabletron Systems, responsible for Northeast Regional Sales and Operations.

VKernel announced yesterday that there has been a regime change at the top.  The company announced that industry veteran, Doug McNary, will now take over the seat as CEO of the company from Alex Bakman, who will now lead company strategy as CTO.

A 20+ year high-tech veteran, McNary has extensive experience in building and scaling successful IT infrastructure management software companies. Doug comes to VKernel from storage management vendor Onaro where as CEO he led the company to profitably and its successful acquisition by NetApp in 2008.

Prior to Onaro, McNary was EVP of Corporate Development and Sales at Motive leading it to over $90M in annual revenue and a successful IPO in 2004. Earlier, he led Tivoli Systems’ initial sales efforts in the US and EMEA growing annual revenues to over $250M leading to its successful IPO and acquisition by IBM.