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Xsigo Appoints Mark Leslie As Chairman Of The Board

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Data center I/O virtualization company Xsigo Systems recently announced that Mark Leslie has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Leslie is the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company, and serves on the boards of a number of private companies and nonprofit organizations including Big Switch Networks, Librato Software, Model N, Pure Storage, SeaMicro Systems, Sugar CRM, Wall Street Systems, NYU Board of Overseers and NYU Science Advisory Board.

He is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software.

Virtualization Vet Jason Mattox Joins Liquidware Labs As CTO

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Liquidware Labs recently announced industry vet Jason Mattox as its new chief technology officer, to further desktop and user virtualization for the masses.

Mattox was one of the original founding members at Vizioncore, now part of Quest Software.

Prior to creating vRanger at Vizioncore, Mattox specialized in migrating corporations from PCs to virtual desktops using technologies such as Windows Server, IGC MultiNode, and MaxSpeed MaxStations, an early stage multi-user desktop virtualization product, followed by Microsoft Windows Terminal Server and various Citrix products.

Liquidware Labs plans to recruit additional team members.

CloudBees Appoints XenSource/Citrix Vet To VP of Business Development

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CloudBees, provider of a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, has named John Vigeant, a 10-year server and open source software vet from Citrix Systems and XenSource, to Vice President of Business Development.

Vigeant was one of five key founding team members of the XenClient project. In this role, he was responsible for business plan development functions that ranged from funding all the way to executing commercial license/OEM agreements with all the major notebook manufacturers.

Vigeant came to Citrix through its 2007 acquisition of XenSource, where he oversaw the company’s most strategic business development and OEM relationships with companies like HP, Dell and Citrix. Prior to XenSource, Vigeant was at Ximian, the Linux desktop and software management startup acquired by Novell.

In his new role, he is responsible for expanding the CloudBees ecosystem and establishing partnerships with IT companies looking to extend into the PaaS market. Vigeant’s appointment further grows the company’s U.S. headquarters in Boston, where CloudBees will be building out its sales and marketing team.

Also recently joined CloudBees:Ben Walding, CTO and long-serving operations manager of Codehaus; Paul Sandoz, formerly of Sun Microsystems, a member of the GlassFish team and co-specification lead of JAX-RS and Jersey; and Stephen Connolly, one of the original committers on Jenkins/Hudson, an avid contributor on Codehaus and an Apache Maven PMC member.

The CloudBees Platform currently serves more than 4,500 customers, the company says.

Virsto Software Names Two New Vice Presidents

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Virsto Software, provider of optimized storage virtualization software, today announced the appointment of Gregg Holzrichter as vice president of marketing and Eric Burgener as vice president of product management.

Holzrichter brings 20 years of marketing success with companies in server virtualization (VMware), CRM (Siebel Systems), ERP (PeopleSoft), customer experience management (Medallia), and consumer packaged goods (Robert Mondavi/Caliterra). At Siebel, Holzrichter helped build one of the most admired go-to-market organizations in the industry. He held a leadership role in product marketing at PeopleSoft, responsible for worldwide marketing for financials ERP.

Holzrichter led VMware’s global campaigns and operations, in addition to Americas marketing, scaling his organization from $100 million to over $1 billion in revenue in under four years. Most recently, Holzrichter was the vice president of marketing at Medallia.

With a broad range of experience working for storage software companies like Veritas, Topio, and Mendocino Software and systems companies like Tandem, Pyramid and Sun, Burgener brings expertise in marketing, business development, and delivering product strategy and roadmaps. Prior to joining Virsto, Burgener was the vice president of marketing at InMage. He also has been an Executive in Residence with Mayfield, and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group.

Zenoss Adds Former IBM Software Architect Rick Houlihan to Executive Team

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Zenoss, a provider of IT management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT environments, announced the addition of Rick Houlihan to the Zenoss executive management team in the role of Vice President of Engineering.

Prior to joining Zenoss, Houlihan was a Software Architect at IBM where he led the development team for the WPAR Manager product, which enables Live Application Mobility, allowing relocation of WPARs from one server to another without application restart. During his tenure at IBM, he was also involved in designing the resource management engine for Blue Cloud, which is now the flagship cloud computing platform for IBM.

Houlihan joined IBM via the acquisition of Meiosys, a leading provider of virtual server management products. As Vice President of Management Software, his team developed ground-breaking technology for policy driven relocation of virtual workloads in dynamic datacenter environments.

Houlihan’s past experience includes senior level engineering and service management positions at Ejasent, a pioneering provider of virtualization technology for cloud computing acquired by Veritas in 2004. He also brings a wealth of venture capital experience to Zenoss, having spent several years as a Venture Partner for Ambex Venture Group.

ConteXtream Adds Industry Vet Joel Brand As VP of Marketing

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ConteXtream, which providers network operators with grid networking solutions that transform and modernize their networks by virtualizing and globalizing service delivery, today announced it has expanded its executive team, adding industry veteran Joel Brand as vice president of marketing.

Brand was previously vice president of product management and marketing at Bytemobile.

Brand was instrumental in delivering to market Bytemobile’s video optimization solution, which was successfully deployed by large operators around the world, including T-Mobile and the Vodafone groups.

Prior to his tenure at Bytemobile, Brand was with Ruckus Wireless, where he was responsible for the service provider business, which brought to market carrier-grade WiFi offload solutions—particularly for HD Video applications.