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PHD Technologes “Acq-hires” Xtravirt Co-founder Alex Mittell

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PHD Technologies (previous coverage), provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the acquisition of UK-based Xtravirt’s suite of virtualization products. As part of the transaction, Xtravirt co-founder, Alex Mittell, will join PHD Technologies as Director of Research & Development. Xtravirt will continue to partner with PHD Technologies as a distributor of esXPRESS to existing and new Xtravirt customers in the UK.

The virtualization tools acquired by PHD Technologies’ will benefit managers of virtualization infrastructures. These include VI3 SnapHunter, a virtual machine snapshot reporter; VI3 PatchDownloader, an automated downloader of VMware ESX patches; VISBU, an infrastructure backup utility and KS Quick Config, a tool to speed up the deployment and configuration of VMware ESX 3 servers.

Alex Mittell is widely known as a technical expert and thought leader in the virtualization community. Prior to co-founding Xtravirt, he worked at Oxford University in the UK as a virtual architect, setting up the university’s virtual infrastructure. Mittell will continue to be based in London.

PHD Technologies Hires Igor Saulsky To Sell More Of Its esXPRESS Solution

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PHD Technologies (previous coverage include their undisclosed funding round and the appointment of CEO Sridhar Murthy), provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the addition of Igor Saulsky as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales.  Saulsky brings more than two and a half decades of software product and corporate sales experience to lead the company’s global sales efforts.

Saulsky spent nine years at Symantec/Veritas Software, during which time the company’s sales grew from $70 million to $2 billion.  Saulsky held a variety of instrumental sales roles, including managing the worldwide sales launch of Veritas’ Storage Virtualization and Computing Utility solutions, and leading the Symantec/Veritas sales integration in the New York region.

More recently, Saulsky led sales organizations at Ingres and Quest Software, where he was responsible for recruiting, training, and managing regional enterprise sales teams.  He joins PHD Technologies from Sunpower Corporation.

PHD Technologies Officially Announces Funding Round, Fails To Share Any Details

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Remember last week when we reported on PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, announcing the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s CEO?

The press release also mentioned a fresh funding round, but was scarce on details. Today, the company decided to let us in on the questions we all ask when a new investment in a virtualization company is made: who decided to invest, and how much?

Except you won’t find any answers in their newest official press release either, except for the fact that it concerns “an equity investment from a top tier venture capital firm”. The rest of the press release was the usual marketingese, but I really wondered why PHD Technologies decided it was worth sending a press release containing absolutely no new information whatsoever?

PHD Technologies Appoints Sridhar Murthy As CEO

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PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s chief executive officer.

For the past two years, Murthy served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer at TicketsNow.com. During his tenure, the company doubled its revenues. Prior to this, Murthy was chief financial officer and vice president of operations at Collabnet, a provider of hosted enterprise solutions for distributed and outsourced software development. Earlier in his career, Murthy held finance and operations leadership positions at Get2Chip, Ariba Inc. and Remedy Corporation.

PHD Technologies recently received a significant equity investment from a top tier venture firm to help fund new product development and geographic expansion. In Q1 2008, esXPRESS surpassed the 1000th customer milestone.