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Former Citrix GM Joins VMTurbo As President And CEO

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VMTurbo, a provider of intelligent workload management software to assure application performance, today announced that N. Louis Shipley, formerly General Manager of Citrix Xen Products Group, has joined VMTurbo as President and CEO. Shipley replaces VMTurbo founder Shmuel Kliger, who will focus on product and technology strategy as well as strategic partnerships.

Shipley was President and CEO of Reflectent Software, an end user application performance monitoring company acquired by Citrix in 2006. He was General Manager of the Citrix Management Systems group, then took on the role of General Manager of Citrix XenServer when Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007.

Lou joined Reflectent in December 2002 after working as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners. Prior to Highland, Lou served as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for WebLine Communications, a customer contact center software company acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for $325 million.

He also will join the VMTurbo board of directors. Shipley replaces VMTurbo founder Shmuel Kliger as President and CEO. Kliger will focus on product and technology strategy as well as strategic partnerships.

AppSense, Lakeside Software Team Up To Deliver User Virtualization Assessment For All Desktop Environments

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AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, and Lakeside Software, provider of business intelligence solutions for IT professionals, today announced a strategic partnership to provide a User Virtualization Assessment service that assists customers with the discovery and design phases of Desktop Transformation projects.

By pairing AppSense and Lakeside’s flagship product, SysTrack, enterprises can move beyond assessment and planning into the implementation and operation of a user virtualization solution.

AppSense and Lakeside are providing a comprehensive solution that ensures enterprises are selecting the right solutions for their desktop environment.

Catbird To Enhance Virtualization Security Solution With VMware vShield Integration

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Catbird has announced plans to deliver VMware vShield controls into Catbird vSecurity through an embedded OEM partnership with VMware.

The integration will give Catbird vSecurity customers the ability to deploy the VMware vShield App as an integrated component of Catbird’s broad security and compliance solution for virtualized infrastructure.

Catbird’s vSecurity weaves multi-function security directly into the fabric of virtual and cloud infrastructure to provide comprehensive protection. Available controls include vulnerability management, IPS/IDS, network segmentation, policy enforcement, inventory, configuration and change management, as well as monitoring and enforcement in many other key operational, security and compliance areas.

Vyatta Network OS 6.3 Extends Virtual Security To Red Hat KVM, Amazon Web Services

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Vyatta, which offers software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, has announced the availability of Vyatta Network OS 6.3.

This release advances Vyatta’s routing, network security and content inspection and expands usage with custom packages for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and Red Hat Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisors.

Vyatta Network OS 6.3 enables enterprises, federal organizations and cloud providers to build and secure complex virtual and physical networks without the need for proprietary hardware.

The latest release of Vyatta’s on-demand networking software provides IaaS, PaaS and SaaS networks a way to maintain compliance within KVM-based environments and the Amazon public cloud. Coupled with VMWare ESX and Citrix XenServer support, Vyatta Network OS now delivers a fully optimized enterprise-class networking solution on all of the leading hypervisor offerings available in today’s market.

General availability of the Red Hat KVM and Amazon AWS support is scheduled for September 15, 2011.

Liquidware Labs Grows Sales Force

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Liquidware Labs has announced the addition of three more senior sales leaders to cover strategic markets as well as two alumni from a past competitor to occupy key technology development positions.

Vizioncore alumni Joseph Castro, Paul Buergey, Scott Bennett and Anne Waterhouse have joined the sales force at Liquidware Labs in regional sales management roles.

Castro will lead sales for the Eastern US while Buergey will head the Western US Region. Bennett will drive sales in the United Kingdom, Benelux and Southern Europe, and Waterhouse will head up sales for Australia and New Zealand.

In addition, Ron McKelvey and Pete Del Rey, co-founders of PHD Virtual, have also joined Liquidware Labs as Director of Special Projects and Technology Evangelist, respectively. PHD Virtual was an early competitor to Vizioncore, and the two companies were instrumental in driving acceptance of the first solutions for virtual machine backup.

McKelvey co- founded PHD Virtual in 2006 with Del Rey after working with P2V technologies in the very early roll-out of server virtualization technology and subsequently became one of the top providers of P2V custom solutions for large, early-adopter companies. McKelvey also has more than 20 years of successful development experience in providing custom solutions, and his work in virtualization led to the development of esXpress, which gained the respect of growing client base and is still a widely-used backup solution for VMware environments.

Del Rey was a key contributor in the launch of the esXpress backup software for VMware and played a key role in the rapid growth of PHD Virtual in the industry. Pete held many leadership and management positions throughout the growth of PHD Virtual after a successful career in development for ERP and data center systems at Siemens.

He has also been active in the VMware and XenServer community boards and regularly contributes to these sites under the board name “petedr.”

Liquidware Labs provides desktop transformation solutions for physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7.

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.