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DataCore Software Names Former Citrix Exec As VP Of Worldwide Marketing

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DataCore Software, provider of storage virtualization software, has announced the appointment of Linda Haury as vice president of worldwide marketing.

A 25-year high-tech industry veteran, Haury comes to DataCore from her most recent position as senior director of global marketing business partner, planning and operations at Citrix Systems.

She brings deep expertise in virtualization and storage technologies and will help drive continued growth for DataCore’s next-generation storage virtualization software solution, SANsymphony- V.

Haury will report directly to DataCore Software president and CEO, George Teixeira.

While at Citrix Systems, Haury held a variety of senior-level marketing positions throughout her 14-year tenure. She was most recently senior director of global marketing business partner, planning and operations and served as the primary interface between Citrix’s corporate and field marketing organizations.

Prior to Citrix Systems, Haury spent much of her career in the storage industry serving as one of the founders of SyDos, a division of SyQuest Technology, where she was vice president of marketing. She also served in that same role for Rodime Systems, a global disk-drive storage provider.

Gluster Appoints Mike Backlund As SVP Of Sales

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Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions for private and public clouds, today announced Mike Backlund has joined the company as senior vice president of sales. He will be responsible for driving both domestic and international sales.

Prior to joining Gluster, Backlund was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Baynote, a provider of personalization and digital marketing optimization solutions. During his time at Baynote, Backlund also held the position of interim CEO.

Previously, Backlund was CEO at Quorum Labs. He also held executive sales positions at open source pioneer SpikeSource as well as Computer Associates.

As senior vice president of field operations at Interwoven, Backlund led the company from less than one million to over $200 million in annual revenue and a successful IPO.

Virtual Machines in a Browser ?

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Yes we can …

When us mere mortals want to learn about a new computer language, or a new platform, we start out with the “Hello World”-variant and then try to dig in deeper…

Some people however when they want to study Javascript, raise the bar by writing optimized code for different Javascript Engines. Sharpening their skill set further by developing a JavaScript PC Emulator… That’s right, Fabrice Bellard of FFMpeg, tinycc, and Qemu fame has recently published a link to his JavaScript PC Emulator written in pure JavaScript and working in recent Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 browsers on different platforms.

Fabrice got his inspiration from the x86 dynamic translator code that is present in Qemu and he emulates a 32bit x86 cpu which is pretty close to a 486 without FPU.

More details on the actual emulator can be found on his web page.

Watch that space. For all you know, we’re going to be hooked on old school PC games in our browsers in the very near future…

Gluster Hires John Kreisa As Its New VP Of Marketing

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Gluster, provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for private and public clouds, last week announced John Kreisa as the company’s new vice president of marketing.

Kreisa brings more than 20 years of experience in building and leading teams in high-growth organizations like Cloudera, MarkLogic and Business Objects.

At Cloudera, provider of Hadoop-based software and services, he was vice president of marketing. During his time there, Kreisa managed all corporate marketing activity including communications, social media and product marketing.

Prior to joining Cloudera, Kreisa worked at MarkLogic, an XML database provider, as director of product marketing and directory of industry solutions.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin.

AppSense Names Harry Labana As VP And Chief Technology Officer

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AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, recently announced it has appointed Harry Labana as vice president and chief technology officer. Labana brings more than 16 years experience in a wide-range of technology roles including infrastructure, software development, architecture and project management.

Labana joins AppSense from partner Citrix, where he was vice president and chief technology officer for the Citrix Desktop Division.

AppSense and Citrix have a decade-long partnership, which has taken their joint virtualization solutions into some of the largest desktop environments in the world.

AppSense currently counts more than 4,000 customers and 350 reseller partners worldwide.

“I am very excited to join AppSense at a critical period in its development, as the market opportunity and potential for user virtualization is growing exponentially,” said Labana. “It has been an honor to work with the team at Citrix, and I view my new role at AppSense as an opportunity to further strengthen and extend the partnership between the two companies”.

During his time at Citrix, Labana was part of the leadership team responsible for driving the company’s overall technology and product strategy. In his role, he evangelized the strategic vision of the company’s desktop virtualization solutions to both internal and external audiences.

Prior to joining the company, Labana led global engineering and architecture for desktop and application virtualization at Goldman Sachs.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic systems engineering with honors from the University of Manchester.

AppSense Names VPs Of Marketing And Sales For The US

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AppSense, provider of user virtualization solutions, recently announced it has expanded its executive management team in the U.S. and hired David Burton as vice president of marketing and Michael Nicosia as vice president of sales.

Burton joins AppSense’s global corporate marketing team and will lead its efforts in the U.S. territory, driving all aspects including new opportunity generation and the rapid expansion of the channel program. Nicosia will be responsible for the sales organization within the U.S.

Prior to joining AppSense, Burton was the VP of marketing and business development at AlgoSec, a provider of network security solutions, and previously held senior marketing roles at Check Point Software Technologies, NetContinuum and Symantec.

Nicosia was previously part of the leadership team for the Citrix Online Division. Previously, Nicosia was the president of Barry Rhein & Associates, a sales consulting and training company targeting Fortune 1000 companies.