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Former XenSource CEO Peter Levine Is Andreessen Horowitz’s Newest Partner

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VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz has appointed Peter Levine, a veteran of the enterprise software company Veritas (now a part of Symantec) and former CEO of XenSource (now part of Citrix) as partner.

Levine is the third partner to join the firm in recent months; in January 2011 Andreessen-Horowitz named HP and Opsware vet Mark Cranney as a partner for market development, and in March 2011 it added IronPort’s Scott Weiss.

At AH, Levine will focus on investments in the infrastructure area, which broadly includes cloud computing, networking, virtualization, and storage software companies.

Levine is continuing in his role as a VP of Strategic Development at Citrix and will continue teaching a class on Technology Sales at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

(Via TechCrunch)

Vyatta Teams Up With Zycko

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Vyatta, provider of open networking and network virtualization solutions, is partnering with value-added distributor Zycko to provide a scalable, flexible and affordable network and routing software alternative to the existing proprietary routing and security solutions in the EMEA market.

Vyatta provides a software-based, open-source, network operating system with a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set, capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.

As a software solution, Vyatta delivers a single, portable network operating system that is optimized to connect and secure physical networks, virtual servers and applications and cloud computing environments.

As well as supplying Vyatta software, Zycko will also offer Vyatta alongside Riverbed, using the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) that is powered by VMware. Vyatta, a member of the Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA), delivers a certified RSP Ready software package.

Vyatta is already well established in North America and boasts a range of government departments, universities, SaaS providers, VoIP suppliers and Fortune 500 companies among its customers. Recently, Vyatta was named to CRN‘s 2010 Emerging Vendors list for the networking sector and ranked no. 15 in The VAR Guy’s Open Source 50.

Zycko is a value-add distributor of best-in-class convergent IT infrastructure solutions through a channel of resellers, systems integrators and service providers.

Zycko is privately held and has been profitable since inception in 2000, when the company’s original charter was to market data networking accessories to resellers as a wholesale distributor. Zycko now employs over 275 staff, serving over 2000 resellers around the world from twelve offices on four continents. The company enjoys an annual turnover of $198m.

Zycko’s strategic partner base includes world-class companies such as, Aastra, Asigra, Eaton, ExaGrid, FalconStor, Force10, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawei Symantec, Intransa, Isilon, LifeSize, PowerDsine, ProLabs, Riverbed, SmartOptics, Spectra Logic, Talari Networks, USystems, Virtensys and Xsigo.

Infonetics: Virtual Security Market Up 119% in 1Q 2010, To Hit $1.6 Billion In 2014

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Market research firm Infonetics Research released the first edition of its new 2010 biannual Virtual Security Appliances market size and forecast report, which tracks VPNs and firewalls, SSL VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and content security gateways designed for virtualized servers.

The worldwide virtual security appliance market jumped 64% in 2009 over 2008, to $203.8 million.

  • Year-over-year, from the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, the virtual security appliance market is up 119%
  • Infonetics Research forecasts the virtual security appliance market to grow nearly 8-fold from 2009 to 2014, when it will near $1.6 billion
  • The virtual security appliance segment posting the strongest quarterly growth in 1Q10 is content security gateway virtual appliances, up 22%
  • North America is currently the largest regional market for virtual security appliances

Infonetics’ biannual Virtual Security Appliances report provides worldwide and regional market size, forecasts through 2014, and analysis for virtual security appliances, including VPNs/firewalls, SSL VPNs, IDS/IPS, and content security gateways specifically designed to be installed on virtualized server platforms (VMware, XenServer, Windows Server with Hyper-V). The service counts licenses, revenue, and revenue per license for all virtual security appliance categories.
Companies tracked in the report include AEP, Altor, Astaro, Blue Coat, Check Point, Citrix, Enterasys, McAfee, SonicWALL, Stonesoft, Symantec, Vyatta, and others.

Virtual Instruments Taps Investor And Industry Vet John Thompson As Its New CEO

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Virtual Instruments, a provider of storage area network and virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, today announced that John W. Thompson, Symantec Board Chairman and former CEO, has taken on the role of CEO of the company.

Thompson joined Virtual Instruments as an investor and board member in 2009.

John W. Thompson is replacing Mark Urdahl.  Urdahl remains a director and a large shareholder of the company.

During Thompson’s 10-year tenure as CEO of Symantec, he grew revenues from $600 million to over $6 billion.  He transformed the company into a leader in security, storage and systems management solutions, delivering world class products to a global customer base, including both individuals and large-scale enterprises.

Beyond his role at Symantec, Thompson served on the National Infrastructure Advisory Committee (NIAC), making recommendations regarding the security of critical US infrastructure, a role to which President George W. Bush appointed him.  Before joining Symantec, Thompson spent over 25 years at IBM in various senior sales and marketing management positions, most recently as general manager of IBM Americas.   He holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M University and a master’s degree in management science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Cloud.com, a new Open Source Cloud management platform..

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With a domain like Cloud.com you are doomed to deliver something Virtualization related,

And today that plan became visible for the rest of the world, the company formerly known as VMOps , today emerges from stealth mode and announces that it will be rebranding to Cloud.com

We had a chat earlier this week with Peder Ulander who joined Cloud.com as chief marketing officer bringing more than 15 years of experience. Previously, Peter could be found at companies such as Sun Microsystems responsible for launching Java into the open source market by re-licensing, building a community and launching the open source Java platform. but also at other Open Source companies icluding MontaVista Software, the largest distributor of Linux for embedded devices, and Cobalt Networks, one of the early open source for networking companies, Cisco and Symantec.

Next to Peter the company also announced two other new additions to it’s management team

Kevin KLuge joins as vice president of engineering and previously served as vice president of engineering at Zimbra, an open source server software provider for email and collaboration, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 and sold to VMware in 2009. Prior to Zimbra, Kluge was vice president of engineering at Corvigo, a leading anti-spam provider. Additionally, Kluge has held leadership positions at Openwave Systems, where he led engineering for multiple innovative products including instant messaging, voicemail and multi-media messaging services (MMS), Sun Microsystems and Portola Communications.

and Kyle MacDonald joins as chief evangelist having most recently served as vice president of corporate development and strategy for Hosting.com / Wachovia Capital Partners. Prior to this position, MacDonald held executive leadership positions at Sun Microsystems including leading the Web 2.0, Internet and next generation service providers sector at Sun Microsystems, acquired by Oracle in 2009. MacDonald also held the position of corporate technologist for software and strategic technology at AMD where he helped developed AMD’s software strategy and key strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, BEA, Adobe, EMC and Symantec.

The new team members join the team of CEO Sheng Liang, who founded the company in 2008. Liang has extensive experience in the technology industry and has served in a number of both technical and executive leadership roles. Prior to Cloud.com, Liang co-founded and served as CTO of Teros, which was acquired by Citrix in 2005. Sheng also was a member of the senior management teams at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, and was the lead developer and key contributor to the success of the Java Virtual Machine at Sun.

Cloud.com also lets the Virtual world know that it closed a $11 million Series B round led by new investor Index Ventures. Current investors Redpoint Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners also participated in this round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $17.6 million

Apart from its new name, management and funding Cloud.com today also announced their product : CloudStack,
an open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of private and public cloud services. They provide an integrated software solution for delivering infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which comes in three distinct versions: CloudStack Enterprise Edition, CloudStack Service Provider Edition and CloudStack Community Edition.

CloudStack is the result of work started by VMops in 2008 and is already being used in productions by some key customers.

Next to the expected features such as definition, deployment and management of cloud devices, CloudStack also adds metering to the feature list, so billing can be done based on actual usage of the public , private or hybrid deployments.

About the Open Source release availabel on Cloud.com tells us :
The CloudStack Community Edition is distributed under the General Public License 3 (GPL3). The Community Edition offers a leading open source software stack integrated with the open source Xen and KVM hypervisors, and can be deployed with Ubuntu and Fedora distributions. With its simple to install software package, Cloud.com is a fully integrated binary that enables developers to quickly and easily build, manage and deploy IaaS clouds.

There is a lot of competition in the Open Source Cloud and Virtualization management area, Corporate OpenQRM just being relaunched by Matt Rechenburg, Eucalyptus these days being managed by Marten Mickos and Abiquo just having opened a new office in the US, … and this all seems just like the start

So I`m keen to follow this one … and I’ll be having a closer look at the Cloud.com platform in our lab soon.

Jeremy Burton Joins EMC as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

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EMC today announced that 20-year IT industry veteran Jeremy Burton has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Burton will be responsible for the global structure, strategy, and execution of all aspects of EMC’s marketing efforts. Burton will report to Joe Tucci, EMC’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Burton, 42, joins EMC from Serena Software, where he was President and CEO. Previously, as Group President of Symantec’s Security and Data Management Business Unit, Burton was responsible for the company’s $2 billion Enterprise Security product line.

Prior to that role, he served as Executive Vice President of the Data Management Group at VERITAS, responsible for the company’s backup and archiving products, and also served as VERITAS’ Chief Marketing Officer. Earlier in his career, Burton spent nearly a decade at Oracle, culminating in his role as Senior Vice President of Product and Services Marketing.