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Cloudera Names John Kreisa to Executive Team

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Cloudera, the commercial Apache Hadoop company, today named John Kreisa as Vice President of Marketing.

With nearly two decades of enterprise software product marketing and product management experience, Kreisa will play a key leadership role in developing and executing Cloudera’s global growth strategy.

Prior to Cloudera, Kreisa held various senior marketing roles in innovative and category-leading technology companies, including three years at Mark Logic Inc., an information infrastructure software provider, and Business Objects. Most recently at Mark Logic, John was Director of Industry Solutions and Director of Product Marketing, where he contributed to a wide range of marketing initiatives and focused on enabling industry-focused sales teams with applied messaging, sales tools, competitive analysis and positioning.

Widely quoted, John was also the primary company spokesperson for press and analysts, spoke at dozens of industry events, and was a key contributor to demand generation activity and company events. Before Mark Logic, he spent six years in product marketing at Business Objects, which was a pioneer in the Business Intelligence (BI) market and helped to establish the category.

Vizioncore Bolsters EMEA Team, Appoints Southern European Sales Director

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Vizioncore, provider of virtualization data protection and management solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, today announced the appointment of Evelyne Bourderioux as Southern European sales director.

Reporting to Roger Baskerville, vice president, EMEA, Bourderioux will provide sales leadership and strategic direction in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Bourderioux comes to Vizioncore with more than 30 years of experience in technology sales. Most recently, she held the position of EMEA sales director at NEC SAS, with responsibility for building the company’s new organization and market approach to value solutions selling. Prior to NEC, Bourderioux spent more than four years at VMware, where she served as regional sales manager, France, as well as country sales manager for France. Before VMware, Bourderioux held sales management positions at Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment France, Philips, Sperry, and Bull.

3PAR Launches Utility Storage in India, Appoints Arvind Khurana As Country Manager

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3PAR announced today that it has launched its first sales and customer service office in India and has named Arvind Khurana as country manager.

This move into India is intended to position 3PAR to meet growing demand for technologies to support cloud computing, the virtual datacenter, green IT initiatives, and enhanced infrastructure agility in an economy that has been expanding in the midst of a worldwide recession.

The opening of a new 3PAR sales and customer service office with 12 employees in Bangalore underscores the strength of the Indian economy, and the role that 3PAR intends to play in helping Indian organizations expand in an agile, efficient, and environmentally responsible way.

Based in Delhi, Khurana is responsible for overall sales execution for 3PAR in the country. He was formerly country sales manager for Collabnet Software, where he drove awareness of that company’s collaborative development environment. At Collabnet, Khurana also formed and led the company’s sales organization and forged strategic relationships with enterprise software vendors as well as some of India’s largest systems integration and consulting firms.

The increased commitment to the Indian market is part of 3PAR’s growth strategy in the entire Asia Pacific region, which 3PAR views as critical to the company’s business agenda. Many of 3PAR’s global customers such as Credit Suisse, Savvis, and Verizon have stated plans to expand their presence in these markets and consolidate their businesses in countries throughout the region. 3PAR’s APAC headquarters, headed by Vaughan Woods, is located in Singapore.

Release: eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance

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eG Innovation has announced the immediate availability of the eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance.

Designed to monitor virtual and physical IT infrastructures, the eG Enterprise Virtual ApplianceTM is a fast and easy way to deploy eG’s award winning performance monitoring software as a single pane of glass to gain end-to-end visibility across heterogeneous network, server and applications in an IT infrastructure.

The eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance is a pre-configured version of the full eG Enterprise SuiteTM that includes the eG Manager, a Java Development Kit, an Oracle Express database and an eG agent. Initially offered for and fully tested on VMware vSphere, the eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance was built using VMware Studio and is provided as an OVF file.  The eG Enterprise Suite has been validated as VMware Ready.

Administrators can also use the eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance to monitor their physical infrastructures. With support for monitoring 10+ operating systems, 5+ virtualization platforms, and 85+ applications, the eG Enterprise Suite offers broad infrastructure coverage.

Whether monitoring a virtual or physical infrastructure, the eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance is priced at $2,000 for each physical server to be monitored, regardless of the number CPUs/sockets, or operating systems.  No agents are needed on the virtual machines or virtual desktops being monitored.

There is no time limit for the eG Enterprise Virtual Appliance, which is installed as a download from the eG Innovations website. However, a separate license key is needed to activate the eG Manager.  For small infrastructures (up to 10 physical servers), the eG Manager can be configured to store performance metrics using the built-in database within the virtual appliance.  For larger installations (10 servers or more), the eG Manager can be configured to use any external database server to store performance metrics.

Layerboom Introduces Virtualization Appliance BoomBox

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Layerboom Systems has unveiled the BoomBox, a virtualization appliance for creating and managing private and public cloud computing environments.

Layerboom’s BoomBox is a new turnkey device that makes cloud computing much simpler, more affordable and far less time consuming. Now companies can benefit from virtualization by manipulating their own server clouds within minutes and at a fraction of the cost, using this latest technology.

Layerboom is marketing the BoomBox to hosting companies, data centers, SMBs and enterprise companies seeking to increase their IT capability and productivity by sharing server resource pools to provide both cost efficiencies and high availability. So far, the Vancouver-based company has generated sales in several Asian and North American markets. In addition, Layerboom has been selected to present at “Under the Radar” as one of the top 20 up and coming cloud computing companies this April in San Francisco.

As the only virtualization appliance on the market, the BoomBox offers many advantages over traditional cloud computing software solutions and service providers. The Boombox is a complete solution, not only powering cloud environments, but enables its users to manage and monitor its server infrastructure as well. It is designed to be compatible with all server hardware with virtualization extensions, and can fit into nearly any small business, corporate or hosting environment. A single appliance can manage up to 100 physical servers using a central management dashboard which includes everything required to manage a virtual server cloud.

The BoomBox is also fast and easy to use. Virtual servers can be managed in minutes compared to traditional cloud solutions which can take months to create. The appliance provides a central management dashboard which can be used to manage virtual and physical infrastructure. Managing the cloud can be done remotely and dynamic bootstrapping of physical servers means increasing capacity is as simple as plugging in new hardware.

Layerboom’s powerful new appliance is the most affordable enterprise-class virtualization solution available. Starting at just $3,500 per unit, companies do not need to incur extra costs for software, license fees or IT professionals. The pricing model is simple with no hidden fees. Competing cloud computing solution providers charge more than double the price of the BoomBox for a service that doesn’t come close to its flexibility and efficiency.

Zenoss Releases Service Assurance Monitoring Product Based on Cisco UCS

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Zenoss has announced the beta availability of a new service assurance product that delivers end-to-end monitoring for private and public-clouds deployed on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

With Zenoss Business-to-Blade monitoring for Cisco UCS, enterprises and service providers are now able to quickly and cost-effectively deploy a unified operations console for their UCS-based services.

Details:

  • Zenoss’ service assurance offering for Cisco UCS automatically discovers, interconnects and monitors the entire UCS environment from “Business-to-Blade”. Components covered include: UCS internals (service profiles, chassis, blades, interconnects, and other components), external networking, storage, virtualization platforms, operating systems, middleware, applications, and end user services.
  • For each of these elements, Zenoss provides real-time performance, availability, and event management, along with configuration and workload dependency tracking. As service relationships in the environment change in real time, Zenoss automatically identifies the impact and updates its service dependency map.
  • With Zenoss, UCS users benefit from a unified operations console that provides real-time health for their UCS-based services along with integrated drill-down for rapid problem resolution and automated remediation.
  • With its unique commercial open source approach, Zenoss offers a flexible, cost-effective offering that is backed by world-class support services.
  • In addition to Cisco UCS monitoring, Zenoss also provides broad coverage of many Cisco technologies including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, unified communications and TelePresence.
  • The Cisco UCS management capabilities are included as part of a Zenoss Enterprise subscription. General availability is set for later this month.