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Ziften Names Former Disney CIO Roger Berry To Its Advisory Board

September 19, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Ziften Technologies, an enterprise system efficiency company, today announced the appointment of Roger Berry to its advisory board.

Berry has served as a member of the Hewlett Packard Technology Advisory Council and the University of Florida Technology Board, and presently serves on University of Houston-Tier One Advisory Board.

Berry previously served as CIO of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts for over a decade. Prior to Walt Disney, Berry served as VP and CIO of Campbell Soup Company, as well as Tenneco.

He majored in Mathematics, and minored in Computer Science, earning a B.A. from the University of Houston.

Ziften offers enterprise software that empowers organizations to better understand and control applications running across their Windows desktop environments and to automatically eliminate, restrict, or accelerate them based on relative business value.

With extensive experience deploying behavioral software to more than 150 million systems worldwide, Ziften has understanding of Windows process behavior and application performance.

The comany is backed by Fayez Sarofim & Co. and Trellis Partners, and boasts advisory board members including the founder of Tivoli, the founder of iChat and the former President & COO of Waste Management,.

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Ziften Launches With $5.8 Million In Series A Funding

July 21, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Ziften Technologies has officially launched and announced a $5.8 million Series A round of funding that has fueled the company’s growth since its origin in early 2010.

Ziften focuses on enterprise system efficiency, introducing software dedicated to improving endpoint efficiency, user productivity, and device service lifetimes way beyond traditional desktop management by increasing Quality of Service (QoS) across all endpoints within an enterprise.

Ziften’s software directs and reallocates computing resources to the applications of highest business value, benefiting the enterprise, employees, and IT.

Ziften closed $5.8 Million Series A funding from Fayez Sarofim & Co. and Trellis Partners.

Ziften executives bring together experience from technology’s most regarded brands: Akami, AMD, Cisco, Dell, Intel, and CalTech. Most notably, this team worked together as the founders of WholeSecurity, an enterprise security leader snapped up by Symantec in 2005.

Product details will be announced shortly.

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: Desktop Efficiency, Endpoint Efficiency, Ziften, Ziften Technologies

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