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Scality Expands Team In New York Office, Appoints Eric Craig As Sales Chief

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Cloud storage system company Scality has appointed Eric Craig as North American Sales Director.

He comes to Scality from SunGard Availability Services, a $1.5 billion enterprise software company providing cloud security and disaster recovery where, as Vice President of Sales, he developed a highly productive channel and reseller network. Prior to that, while at Current Analysis, Craig delivered six straight quarters of growth.

Earlier in his career he led the building of a new sales organization for Cable & Wireless/SAVVIS and led the Qwest Communications launch into advanced IP services.

Scality is the developer of RING, an application centric cloud storage system, enabling cloud storage to scale up to exabytes using commodity server hardware with direct attached storage.

VMware Plans To Report Q1 2011 Financial Results On Tuesday, April 19

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VMware plans to announce first quarter financial results after market close on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review financial results and business outlook.

A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware Investor Relations website at http://ir.vmware.com.

An Update On BeyondTrust And Its PowerBroker Suite

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BeyondTrust, provider of privilege delegation and authorization management tools, has announced substantial market penetration of its PowerBroker Suite in cloud and virtualization environments.

In early 2010, BeyondTrust began to re-architect the PowerBroker product line to meet the demands of new elastic computing environments that Global 2000 customers are rapidly adopting.

The prolific use of virtualization and cloud models characterized by multi-hybrid architectures are providing these customers with notable cost benefits, but are also introducing added complexity when it comes to privileged access. To assist with new customer demand, BeyondTrust grew its reseller Privilege Partner Program globally by 300 percent as well as adding immixGroup and Tech Data.

BeyondTrust also achieved record new customer sales last year expanding penetration into virtualization and cloud environments, as well as into mission-critical Linux-based server projects that are even more common in these environments.

In 2010 BeyondTrust introduced the cloud-based implementation of its SUDO conversion utility (PAAS) to make it easier for cloud customers to migrate from SUDO, resulting in the company now having over 200 customers in every major vertical segment using or testing the conversion tool. The company also introduced PowerBroker for Virtualization.

For 2011, the company will release updated versions of its flagship products and will continue to add new partners and customers to its portfolio.

VMware, Liquidware Labs Team Up To Deliver ‘Stateless Desktops’

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Liquidware Labs has announced a joint solution with VMware View that allows organizations to deliver stateless VMware View sessions with a best practices disaster recovery design. Liquidware Labs’ ProfileUnity is at the heart of the solution.

When deployed, ProfileUnity and stateless VMware View desktops also serve as a full desktop disaster recovery solution.

For a limited time, Liquidware Labs is offering promotional pricing to any past or present VMware View customers seeking user space virtualization, administrator agility, and disaster preparation. Customers can qualify for volume discounts off list pricing of $24 – contact [email protected] for details on the promotion.

Stealthy Network Virtualization Startup Big Switch Raises $13.7 Million

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Big Switch Networks, a network virtualization startup currently in stealth mode, has raised $13.8 million in funding according to an SEC filing (via FormDs).

The Palo Alto company is led by Guido Appenzeller, a former Stanford assistant professor, former co-founder and CTO at Voltage Security and entrepreneur-in-residence at Morgenthaler Ventures (see his LinkedIn profile)

His co-founder and VP of Sales & Marketing is Kyle Forster, formerly VP of Product Management at Joost and Product Manager at Cisco Systems.

According to a LinkedIn company profile, Big Switch is commercializing network virtualization technologies based on OpenFlow, a research technology from Stanford University’s Computer Science department.

The company’s board includes Shirish Sathaye of Menlo Park-based Khosla Ventures, Mike Volpi of Switzerland-based Index Ventures and former Mountain View-based Veritas Software Chairman and CEO Mark Leslie.

Read more: Big Switch Networks gets $13.8M funding | Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

Virtual Computer Appoints Sham Sao As CMO

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Distributed desktop virtualization company Virtual Computer has announced that it has appointed Sham Sao as chief marketing officer. Sao will be responsible for marketing, communications, product management, and product marketing.

Most recently, Sao served as CMO of OneSource, a division of Infogroup. At OneSource, he led a global marketing team and conceived and launched a web-based offering that grew unique visitors to the website from 40,000 per month to nearly 1,000,000 per month.

Previously, Sao served as global vice president of marketing and business development for Deploy Solutions, a leading provider of software and hardware-based workforce solutions that was acquired by Kronos. Sao also has served in executive positions at companies including Partnerware, Trilogy and McKinsey & Company.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Sao attended Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he earned a J.D. in technology law and served as an editor on the Journal of Law & Technology.