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Talari Networks Names Emerick Woods President And CEO

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Talari Networks has announced the appointment of Emerick Woods as president and CEO. He succeeds Andy Gottlieb, co-founder of Talari, who remains active with the company as a member of the Board of Directors.

Woods has led and founded a number of early- to mid-stage high technology companies as well as completed two IPOs.

Most recently, Woods served as CEO of Global IP Solutions, a publicly listed company that provides media processing software for voice over IP (VoIP) and video conferencing solutions acquired by Google.

Previously, Woods served as CEO of Vicinity Corp. where he completed an IPO raising $125 million. Subsequently acquired by Microsoft, Vicinity provided a location-based services platform to many of the world’s leading brands.

He has also been CEO at several other venture-backed companies focused on the mobile carrier, location-based services, and network infrastructure markets. Woods has held a variety of management and executive positions at Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom.

Talari Networks’ WAN Virtualization solutions transform broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices.

Talari delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40% to 90%, and greater reliability than existing corporate WANs.

Data Center Monitoring Startup AccelOps Names Mahesh Kumar VP Of Marketing

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AccelOps, provider of integrated monitoring solutions built from the ground up for cloud-generation data centers, today announced that Mahesh Kumar has joined the company’s executive team as vice president of marketing.

A respected cloud product strategist with expertise in CMDB and change menegement, SaaS, and managed service provider solutions, Kumar brings 20 years of marketing and engineering experience.

Prior to joining AccelOps, Kumar served as director of marketing at HP, where he took their CMDB software business from inception to market leadership and also led the team that built HP’s first SaaS-only product. Before HP, Kumar held executive positions at Collation and Kontiki, where he drove product and go-to-market strategies.

Earlier in his career at Loudcloud, one of the original cloud computing companies, he managed the team responsible for defining cloud services and was a key evangelist for their transition to a software business model.

In his new role at AccelOps, Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.

The AccelOps integrated monitoring platform enables cloud-generation data centers to deliver on the promise of IT as a service. Offered as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the AccelOps solution cross-correlates diverse operational data on-premise, off-premise, and in cloud environments, proactively monitoring from end-to-end an entire network environment.

Gluster Names Rob Bearden To Its Board

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Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions, has announced that Rob Bearden has joined the company’s board of directors. Gluster provides open source storage solutions for public, private and hybrid clouds.

Throughout his 20-year career, Bearden has made significant contributions in the open source community.

He is currently president and COO of Hortonworks, company focused on adoption and maturation of the open source Apache Hadoop project. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer of SpringSource until its acquisition by VMware, as COO of JBOSS through its acquisition by RedHat, and as chairman of the board of Pentaho.

Bearden will support Gluster’s continued growth and will provide guidance to help further develop its open source community.

Prior to SpringSource, Bearden served as entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.

He was also COO for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider.

App-DNA Names Former Microsoft Exec As Chairman of the Board

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App-DNA has named Patrick De Smedt as Chairman of its Board of Directors as part of the new expanded executive team.

De Smedt was previously a non-executive member of the App-DNA Board and former Chairman of the Microsoft EMEA organization.

In this new role, he will support the continued growth and global expansion of App-DNA.

De Smedt is a 23-year veteran of Microsoft and former Chairman of the Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa organization. As one of the first European employees for Microsoft, De Smedt held several roles as Microsoft expanded. He joined Microsoft in 1983 as one of the pioneers in Europe.

He was General Manager of Microsoft Benelux, Vice-President of the Enterprise Group in EMEA and Vice-President of Western Europe. He was appointed as Chairman of the EMEA region in 2003. When Patrick left Microsoft at the end of 2006, the EMEA region generated revenues of $12 billion with a headcount of 12,000 employees.

Patrick currently serves on the boards of a number of public and private companies.

App-DNA analyzes the ‘DNA’ of an application, using insight about applications to guide decisions about application migration, management and evolve application portfolios long term. The App-DNA AppTitude software platform helps enterprises worldwide save time, cost and risk in managing applications for Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenDesktop XenApp, VDI and Windows Server 2008 initiatives.

App-DNA is a CitrixReady Core Partner, Citrix Technology Partner, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance and a Microsoft Jumpstart partner.

CommVault Names Bob Carapezzi As Its New Director Of Professional Services For The Americas

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CommVault is announcing that Bob Carapezzi has joined the company as the new director of professional services for the Americas.

In this role, he will look to expand CommVault’s strategic services offerings to help enterprises streamline the integration of CommVault Simpana software into their physical, virtual and cloud environments to solve key business and IT challenges.

The addition of Carapezzi will further seek to improve sales efficiencies in CommVault’s Professional Services organization, accelerate enterprise services revenue growth and help customers fully realize the value of their Simpana software implementations.

Most recently, Carapezzi served as the Northeastern area professional services director for BMC Software. Prior to BMC, Carapezzi held professional services management roles for companies including Pillar Data Systems, Veritas (now Symantec) and Informix.

Innotas Hires New Product Development, Marketing Execs

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Innotas, a provider of cloud solutions for IT management, has announced that Cliff McBride and Joerg Koehler have joined the company as SVP of Product Development and Director of Marketing, respectively.

McBride will be responsible for the product roadmap, engineering, development, and delivery of support tools needed for this stage of Innotas’ growth and expansion to serve its increasing customer base.

Prior to joining Innotas, Cliff McBride led the development activities for Autonomy’s Interwoven business unit where he managed the team responsible for web content management solutions. McBride also spent 11 years with Boeing and IBM developing geospatial software and managing teams working on classified intelligence projects for the U.S. Air Force.

Koehler is an international marketing professional with over 13 years of experience. Koehler will lead the corporate and product marketing activities at Innotas.

Prior to joining Innotas, Joerg Koehler oversaw worldwide corporate and product marketing as Director of Global Marketing at Neocase Software. Additionally, he held key roles in marketing at Canto Software, GlobalEnglish Corporation, and Intershop Communications.