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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.

Release: Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App For iPad

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Oracle has announced that its Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad is now available on the App Store.

The app enables users secure access to virtual desktops managed by Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App is available for free from the App Store on iPad.

It offers simple, and accurate gesture based and multitouch operation with rich virtual keyboard support, including CTRL, ALT, ESC, Insert, Delete, Tab, Home, End, Function, Paging, and cursor keys.
The app contains a fast and responsive interface which allows multi-tasking and seamless switching between other iOS apps.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Client leverages Oracle’s ALP protocol to provide a high quality user experience.

User sessions are protected, even over public Wi-Fi connections, through 256-bit AES encryption and features auto discovery of available Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or Sun Ray Software servers.

Release: Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3

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Oracle has announced Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.3, featuring an enhanced administration portal with role based access control, introducing Oracle Linux as a supported host platform and delivering increased performance.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a complete solution for managing and accessing virtualized desktops hosted in the datacenter.

Through centralizing the hosting and management of users’ desktops, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps reduce administration overhead, lower total cost of ownership and increase security.

Oracle VDI adds support for Oracle Linux as a host /installation platform. Customers can now choose either Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris on which to deploy Oracle VDI.

Guest support includes the latest Oracle Solaris, Microsoft Windows and other Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu 11.04.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3 is part of Oracle’s complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio that enables customers to efficiently and easily virtualize and manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.

Oracle’s desktop virtualization products, including Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, are certified with any Oracle Applications that are supported to run within an Internet browser environment.

Spring Mountain, RRE Ventures Invest In WhipTail Technologies

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Spring Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment management firm led the Series A Preferred Stock financing for WhipTail Technologies, an independent manufacturer of solid state-storage arrays designed to improve the scalability and performance of applications, such as virtualization, databases and email. RRE Ventures also participated in the round.

Financing terms were not disclosed.

With the investment, Spring Mountain Capital and its affiliates have become a majority investor in WhipTail. In conjunction with the financing, SMC Managing Directors Raymond Wong, Avi Faliks and Jamie Weston have joined the company’s Board of Directors.

WhipTail will use the financing to accelerate the expansion of the its sales and marketing efforts as well as support additional product development. Sales efforts are being ramped up in the U.S. and Europe through the hiring of sales teams, the development of key strategic partnerships, enhancement of the company’s reseller channels and provisioning of key marketing support to that channel.

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.

Citrix Reaches For The Cloud.com, Acquires Cloud Computing Startup For A Reported $200 Million+

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Citrix this morning announced that it has acquired Cloud.com, a provider of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. The company’s CloudStack product line helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design.

The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but TechCrunch reports that Citrix paid more than $200 million for the cloud computing startup.

Also read: Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis from CloudAve

Industry analysts expect a massive build out in cloud infrastructure, creating a new market projected to exceed $11 billion by the end of 2013.

The Cloud.com product line is not a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with cloud management layered on top. It is a hypervisor-agnostic solution designed from the ground up to help providers build clouds the way the world’s largest and most successful public clouds are built – simple, automated, elastic, scalable and efficient.

With the addition of Cloud.com, Citrix now offers a complete portfolio of virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions purpose built for what it dubs the ‘Cloud Era’. The Cloud.com product line will continue to support commercial hypervisors such as Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere, as well as open source hypervisors like Xen. Citrix intends to add support for Microsoft products like Hyper-V and System Center to the Cloud.com product line, as well as support a full range of “platform-as-a-service” development environments, storage systems, servers and management software.

As a founding member of Openstack.org, Citrix is the second largest contributor to the project and is a member of the OpenStack policy board. Citrix product support for OpenStack was initially announced at the recent Citrix Synergy conference under the code name “Project Olympus.”

With this acquisition, Citrix will also be extending OpenStack support to the Cloud.com product line in an upcoming release later this year.

Cloud.com CEO Sheng Liang will continue to lead the design, architecture and technology of the CloudStack product line, reporting to Sameer Dholakia, group VP and GM of the newly-formed Cloud Platforms product group at Citrix.

The Cloud.com CloudStack solution is available to cloud providers today, with Citrix branded versions coming in a future release.