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Former Cisco Exec Simon Aspinall Joins Virtustream As CMO

January 19, 2012 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream has announced that Simon Aspinall has joined its executive team as chief marketing officer. Aspinall spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and, at Virtustream, will drive strategic marketing initiatives as the company expands its xStream cloud solution product suite, including the xStream Software Infrastructure-as-a-Service (SIaaS) offering and more.

Aspinall will lead Virtustream’s Silicon Valley Office in San Francisco.

Most recently, Aspinall led Cisco’s global marketing teams for Cloud, Service Provider Data Center and Mobile solutions. During his decade at Cisco, Aspinall has also led both business development and sales teams in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Aspinall’s appointment as chief marketing officer follows a year of strong growth for Virtustream; the company opened four new offices in 2011, and recently acquired cloud software company Enomaly, to enhance its xStream cloud solutions and ecosystem.

Virtustream Appoints Karl Deacon As Managing Director, EMEA

October 27, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream, a cloud solutions provider, has appointed Karl Deacon as managing director for EMEA.

Deacon joins Virtustream from Capgemini where he was most recently vice president strategy and global CTO of the Infrastructure Services strategic business unit.

Prior to Capgemini, he was director of international operations and engineering, EMEA, at WorldCom, where he led a team of more than 800 people as they provided critical services to internal users and commercial services to EMEA clients.

Deacon has also held senior international roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Logica and American Express, and served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy.

Virtustream Appoints Former VMware Exec Jeff Miller As Chief Sales Officer

October 25, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Virtustream, a cloud solutions provider, has announced that Jeff Miller has joined its executive team as Chief Sales Officer with global responsibility for the company’s sales operations.

Miller joins Virtustream from the SpringSource division of VMware, where he served as VP of sales, Americas.

Prior to VMware, Miller was at SpringSource up to its acquisition by VMware; he was instrumental in integrating SpringSource’s open source solutions into VMware’s vFabric cloud application development framework.

Prior to SpringSource, Miller managed sales divisions for Novell, desktop integration provider OpenSpan and JBoss.

Virtustream provides a full range of cloud services to assess customer infrastructure requirements and make specific vendor and technology agnostic recommendations regarding cloud deployments.

Virtustream Raises $10 Million Series B Round

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream, a provider of cloud services and next generation infrastructure solutions, has landed $10 million of Series B round financing to complement the company’s previous Series A round for a total of $59 million in equity capital raised to date.

Virtustream’s Series B funding comes from existing investors: Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, and TDFunds.

Virtustream will use the proceeds from this new capital raise to productize its internal cloud provisioning platform, xStream, into a distributable end “cloud O/S” software product.

This will allow customers to purchase the xStream software to place atop their own infrastructure assets to gain the unique efficiencies of xStream’s infrastructure provisioning architecture. It will also allow Virtustream to be a channel partner for service providers such as Telecommunications Carriers and Systems Integrators to facilitate the development of their cloud solutions.

Virtustream will also invest resources in the branding, marketing and advertising of its products and services, and in expanding its market presence in San Francisco and London.

Finally, Virtustream will invest in growing its Cloud Advisory Services group, which supports enterprise clientele in a consultative manner to help them determine optimal cloud adoption and migration strategies.

Virtustream Teams Up With VMware To Run SAP Applications On The xStream Enterprise Cloud Platform

May 18, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream, a provider of cloud services and infrastructure solutions, today announced a partnership with VMware to demonstrate the viability and efficiency of running SAP applications in a secure, multi-tenanted enterprise cloud environment.

Through a new program offered by Virtustream, qualified SAP customers can test drive running their SAP applications on Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform, xStream, with resources optimized by VMware vSphere.

Cloud Services Provider Virtustream Opens New York Office

March 17, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream, a provider of cloud services and infrastructure solutions, has announced a new office in New York to support the development and delivery of Virtustream’s suite of Cloud Platform Services as well as regional sales.

Companies are selecting Cloud Services, delivered through Virtustream’s xStream cloud platform, to achieve the benefits of pooled resource efficiencies and elasticity without sacrificing security, availability and application performance.

xStream features a unique unit-based utility pricing model and provides guaranteed resources backed by industry-leading service level agreements.

Ed Franklin, Virtustream executive vice president, Global Cloud Platform Services, recently joined Virtustream and will lead the New York office. Prior to joining Virtustream, Franklin was vice president, Global Solutions for Verizon. Previously, Franklin created and led the IT Services organization of MCI Communications.