Consuro Managed Technology Adds Highly Respected Sales Veteran

Fort Worth, TX (Vocus) November 11, 2010

As a seasoned sales professional, Brown brings more than 25 years experience to his new role and will be responsible for managing existing accounts as well as mining new opportunities.

Prior to joining Consuro, Brown was a Channel Storage Executive for Dell, Inc, educating customers and Value Added Resellers on Dell Equallogic storage solutions. In his role at Consuro, Brown will incorporate his knowledge of Equallogic storage into complete solutions for Consuro’s clients. He will be instrumental in educating customers on how to deploy a virtual storage solution that will support their disaster recovery, business continuity, backup and recovery plans. While at Dell, Brown garnered several awards, including:

System Consultant Manager of the year 2003 Circle of Excellence award and club trip

Systems Consultant of the year 2000 Circle of Excellence award and club trip

Systems Consultant of the year 1999 Circle of Excellence award and club trip

Brown will market Consuros innovative IT support solutions to businesses across Texas. Now more than ever, companies are trying to find ways to cut costs. As a managed services provider, Consuro can offer these companies a flat monthly rate to manage all their IT needs, often saving them thousands of dollars a year.

Gari brings a wealth of experience to our organization. He has the background and expertise needed to help us grow and were fortunate to have him on our team, said Kevin Valadez, Co-President of Consuro.

Consuro is a premier managed service provider offering comprehensive Windows-based IT services including desktop management, server and network management, off-site management, data center solutions, consulting and project management, and asset procurement. Its broad scope of services delivers advanced technological capabilities to businesses of any size. Consuro was founded in 2002 and has offices in San Angelo, Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas.

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Consuro Managed Technology Adds Highly Respected Sales Veteran

Software Industry Veteran Takes the Helm at Intronis, the Leading Online Backup Provider; Company Poised for Strong Growth

Boston (PRWEB) November 16, 2010

Intronis, the leading software as a service (SaaS) online backup and disaster recovery solution for IT service providers serving small businesses, today announced the appointment of Kent Plunkett as the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). A proven leader in the SaaS industry, Plunkett has more than 15 years of experience leading high growth subscription software companies.

“Intronis sets the industry standard for ease of use, security, and technical support,” said Kent Plunkett, CEO of Intronis. “Our software makes it possible for IT service providers to deliver an online data backup and recovery solution with enterprise-level security and functionality to small businesses. Intronis’ channel-only business model, coupled with our unmatched customer support, allows our partners to offer this uniquely valuable solution to their clients–all while increasing their own recurring revenue stream.”

“In my new role,” Plunkett continued, “I look forward to working with our strong management team to drive Intronis’ growth. As a team, we pledge to continue innovating our market-leading products and high reliability services and increasingly provide more opportunities for our channel partners to grow and earn profits.”

Founder Sam Gutmann will remain as Chairman and will continue to drive Intronis’ innovation and customer experience initiatives. “Kent is a superb choice for leading Intronis in this era of growth,” said Gutmann. “He is a veteran of the SaaS industry, and it is a testament to the strength of Intronis’ product and our business model that we were able to attract a leader of Kent’s caliber. His strategic vision, coupled with Intronis’ strong foundation of product and service capabilities, position Intronis to successfully continue growing at more than 50 percent per year annually.”

George Roberts, board member and former executive vice president of sales at Oracle Corporation, said, “Intronis has developed both a product and business model that allows their partners to significantly increase their revenue, and do so with software that is reliable, easy to use, and easy to integrate into their existing portfolio of IT services. With Kent at the helm of the strongest executive team in the industry, the board is confident that his leadership experience will encourage even more managed service providers to build their businesses using Intronis’ online backup solution.”

Before joining Intronis, Plunkett founded SaaS pioneer Salary.com and served as its Chairman and CEO for eleven years. During his tenure, Salary.com grew from start-up to over $ 40 million in sales and completed a successful $ 59 million initial public offering. Salary.com was acquired by Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA) in 2010. Plunkett holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and degree in Economics and Government from Georgetown University. He is a three time Inc. 500 CEO, a six-time Deloitte Fast 50 awardee and was named a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year.

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TechColumbus Names Silicon Valley Veteran Director of Platform Lab, Announces First Participation in New Partner Program

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) February 23, 2012

TechColumbus, Central Ohios catalyst for technology-based company growth, today announced the appointment of Ron Landthorn to the post of Director of Platform Lab.

In this role, Landthorn assumes full management responsibility for an organization that is a leading provider of virtual computing infrastructure and datacenter resources for software testing, application development, proof of concept and disaster recovery planning. Platform Lab, with offices located at TechColumbus, has served an international list of more than 200 clients from startups to major public and private enterprises.

TechColumbus is pleased to have someone with Rons capabilities and management track record join our team to lead Platform Lab to even greater levels of success, said Tim Haynes, TechColumbus Interim President & CEO and Vice President of Marketing and Member Services.

Prior to joining TechColumbus, Landthorn was based in Silicon Valley where he developed a successful track record in international sales and business development leadership for a number of high-profile IT firms, including both venture-funded start-ups (MIPS Technologies) and global technology suppliers (Fujitsu Microelectronics) A Columbus native, he holds an Electrical Engineering degree from The Ohio State University and began his engineering/management career at Procter & Gamble and locally-based AccuRay Corporation.

Landthorn commented: Im pleased to have this opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of Platform Lab, which is well-positioned to serve the growing need for cloud based services particularly as more and more companies recognize the value and importance of software testing and scalable development environments.

New Partner Program

As part of its strategy to expand cloud and virtualization application offerings while fostering collaboration among key solution providers, Platform Lab is today launching its Datacenter Solution Partner Program and is pleased to announce Veeam Software, with U.S. headquarters in Columbus, as Solution Partner for backup and replication technology.

The Solution Partner Program is designed for leading datacenter solutions providers whose products and services complement Platform Labs Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. In addition to collaborating with Platform Lab on joint business opportunities, participating firms benefit from a number of cross-promotional programs including significant brand exposure at Platform Labs offices located within TechColumbus. Planned future partner announcements will include leading hardware and software solutions in the next generation datacenter arena.

As one of the most innovative and fastest growing global suppliers of data protection and infrastructure management technology, Veeam Software is a perfect fit for this program and were pleased to launch this new initiative with a flagship Columbus-based firm, said Ron Landthorn, Director of Platform Lab.

Our respective product and service offerings combine to provide a comprehensive menu of virtualization capabilities for enterprise software development, testing, and production deployment.

Veeam is pleased to have been selected as a Solutions Partner of Platform Lab, an organization with a long, successful track record of providing advanced virtualized datacenter infrastructure resources to hundreds of top firms and agencies, said Doug Hazelman, Vice President of Product Strategy of Veeam Software. Cross promoting Platform Labs cost-effective, scalable virtual compute environments and our industry leading virtualized data protection technology not only makes perfect sense, it should make it easier for our respective and joint customers to select proven solutions that meet their virtualization requirements.

Planned future partner announcements will include leading hardware and software solutions in the next generation datacenter arena.

About Platform Lab (http://www.platformlab.org )

Platform Lab provides the best value — for any company, anywhere — to conduct IT testing, development and projects. Platform Lab is the nation’s only non-profit information technology test and training facility, providing organizations worldwide the complete means to conduct a variety of IT test projects. Clients increase the quality of their applications, organizations, and people without investing in expensive short-term assets. Platform Lab provides a competitive advantage to our clients by offering short and long term access to IT hardware, software and massive bandwidth for all types of companies for IT testing, development and projects.

About TechColumbus (http://www.techcolumbus.org)

TechColumbus is the public-private partnership whose mission is to accelerate the advancement of Central Ohios innovation economy. It is distinguished by its comprehensive breadth of services, including membership, advocacy, venture acceleration and seed funding. Through its services and programming, TechColumbus supports the innovation initiatives of all companies within the region from the newest entrepreneurial startups to the Fortune 500 companies that call Central Ohio home. TechColumbus measures its impact through increased economic growth and the creation of high-paying jobs. With thousands of companies served, and hundreds of millions of dollars directly or indirectly invested, TechColumbus champions the regions world-class technology-enabled companies and is the driver of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Columbus region.

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TechColumbus Names Silicon Valley Veteran Director of Platform Lab, Announces First Participation in New Partner Program

Continuing Expansion, Unitrends Adds Veteran Leadership to Management Team

Columbia, S.C. (PRWEB) July 09, 2012

Unitrends, the #1 provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery, and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the addition of two industry veterans to its executive management team. Jennifer Sullivan, former vice president of marketing at Nasuni, and Mark Croson, former vice president of global customer support at FileTek, have joined the Unitrends executive management team. Sullivan joins as vice president of marketing. Croson joins as vice president of customer support.

Click to Tweet: Unitrends Adds Veteran Leadership to Management Team with New VPs Jennifer Sullivan & Mark Croson

Unitrends is very excited to expand our senior leadership team with such strong credentials,” said Mike Coney, CEO Unitrends. “To not just succeed, but knock it out of the park in a hypercompetitive market, we need leaders who understand the needs of an emerging growth company combined with providing the customer and partner experience you would expect from a top-tier enterprise. The combined experience of Jennifer and Mark, along with our existing leadership bench strength, is absolutely critical in developing a world-class organization and continuing our momentum.”

Sullivan brings more than 20 years of marketing experience and will be responsible for driving Unitrends worldwide marketing strategy. While at Nasuni, she worked collaboratively with sales, business development and engineering to create new marketing strategies that helped accelerate customer demand. Prior to Nasuni, she managed both inside sales and marketing teams to support several companies through their acquisitions, IPO and growth stages including Ounce Labs, Plateau, Unica, and RSA.

Unitrends has exploded in the market over the last couple of years under new leadership and is already making the lives of thousands of IT managers less stressful by providing an all-in-one backup and recovery approach to their heterogeneous environments. Our loyal customers and strong partnerships have driven Unitrends emergence into a dominant player in the backup and recovery space. I want to continue this trend, build additional communities with MVPs, MCSEs, and extend our reach so that more people can benefit from what Unitrends has to offer, said Sullivan. Our greatest challenge is getting the word out as weve been rather quiet about our success. Well accomplish that this year through high-velocity direct and channel-focused efforts, with a continued emphasis on customer success and ease of doing business with Unitrends. IT has enough to worry about, let Unitrends be the strongest arrow in their quiver.

Before joining Unitrends, Croson served as vice president of customer support services at FileTek. Croson was responsible for worldwide customer support operations, customer satisfaction, and ensuring that FileTek customers received superior technical support and customer service. Croson has also held technical and management positions at Storage Technology Corporation, Citicorp, Federal Systems Group, and Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services.

“Unitrends reputation for long-term and value-based customer relationships is unparalleled,” said Croson. “I am excited to build on Unitrends success by helping us deliver uncompromising support. We all know that when faced with backup issues, and more importantly, recovery activities, IT needs immediate and unfailing help.Unitrends should enable our customers to rapidly recover and continue normal business operations. Its an exciting time to join the company and build a support organization that helps expand and extend our solutions and services which will further differentiate Unitrends in the marketplace.

Resources

Connect with Jennifer Sullivan on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jlksullivan

Connect with Mark Croson on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markcroson

Get Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition: http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends-enterprise-backup

Connect with Unitrends on Spiceworks: http://community.spiceworks.com/pages/unitrends

About Unitrends

The trusted provider of all-in-one backup solutions, Unitrends enables its customers to focus on their business instead of backup. The company’s family of scalable, all-in-one appliances and software solutions for backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery protects corporate data, over 100 different versions of servers, operating systems (including Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, Mac OS, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and many others), SAN, NAS, hypervisors (including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen) and applications (including Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and many others.) Unitrends is the preferred choice of IT professionals because the company sets the standard in virtual, physical and cloud server data protection with instant recovery that enables the complete system recovery in less than 5 minutes while Unitrends’ pricing offers the lowest TCO and ROI in the industry. Unitrends’ U.S.-based support team boasts a 99% customer satisfaction rate.

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Software Industry Veteran Tim Buckley Joins Xtium as CEO

King of Prussia, PA (PRWEB) September 07, 2012

Xtium, Inc., a leading enterprise software and solutions company providing managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services, today announced the appointment of software industry veteran, Tim Buckley, as chief executive officer and board member.

Buckley spent five years at Red Hat, Inc., where he served as chief operating officer, helping grow the company from a $ 10 million run rate into a leading global services business. Earlier in his career, Buckley ran worldwide sales for Visio Corporation, growing the company from a start-up to a public entity, which was acquired by Microsoft Corp. for $ 1.5 billion. Buckley helped launch other successful start-ups, including Aldus Corporation, acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated; Approach Software, which was sold to Lotus Corporation; and Decision Resources, sold to Ashton Tate. He was an advisor to MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, and served on the board of SmartPath, acquired by DoubleClick. Buckley currently serves on the boards of SciQuest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQI), ChannelAdvisor and rPath, an app engine provider for the private cloud.

“Cloud computing has created a paradigm shift in the technology marketplace and Xtium is well positioned to capitalize on the resulting market opportunity, said Buckley. The paradigm shift from in-house IT computing to outsourcing to the cloud is similar to the shift I experienced at Red Hat, bringing enterprise open source software to a market that only had proprietary software options. After evaluating the Xtium market opportunity, its recurring services business model and the customer-focused culture, my decision to join was easy.

In September 2011, Xtium secured an $ 11.5 million first-round investment from OpenView Venture Partners to scale sales and marketing, expand the partnership ecosystem and accelerate delivery of the companys flagship virtual private cloud services.

“Tim’s reputation and track record for outstanding leadership and management of high growth software companies is as good as it gets, said Scott Maxwell, founder and senior managing director at OpenView and Xtium board member. It is great to have him on board!”

Xtiums full-service cloud offerings are best fit for companies that want to have a trusted partner architect their cloud solution, perform the migration and manage the infrastructure. With a focus on mid-market enterprises, Xtium offers customers SLA-based services that range from network optimization and online backup to virtual disaster recovery and fully managed hosting.

Since winning its first managed cloud customer in 2007, Xtium has expanded its portfolio of cloud services to include virtual disaster recovery, virtual hosting, virtual desktop infrastructure, smart connectivity and network and user-experience acceleration.

Strong focus will enable us to enhance and expand our customer relationships, further build our team, and develop additional service capabilities that help customers accelerate their hassle-free transition to the cloud,” said Buckley.

About Xtium

Xtium is a leading enterprise software and solutions company providing managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services. We offer companies the most secure virtual private cloud experience with guaranteed application performance across the network. Our architecture is flexible, allowing customers to remain in control. We are the only enterprise service company certified to deliver Riverbed

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