virtualization.info is a publication about technology. On these pages you’ll find information just about vendors and products. Today I’ll make an exception for a person that has made a piece of the virtualization history. Today I’d like to honor Alex Vasilevsky , who died yesterday of cancer. Alex Vasilevsky co-founded Katana Technology in 2003, with Scott Davis, who now is the CTO of the Desktop Virtualization business unit at VMware. Alex Vasilevsky was the Chief Scientist of Katana Technology, which was rebranded as Virtual Iron in January 2005, and officially launched one month later.  Virtual Iron has been acquired by Oracle in May 2009. After Virtual Iron, Alex Vasilevsky founded another virtualization company in December 2007: Old Road Computing. The stealth startup was rebranded as Virtual Computer in September 2008 and officially launched three months later. Virtual Computer launched one of the first client hypervisors in the market. As a very promising company, it attracted the interest of many investors, including Citrix. With both his companies, Alex Vasilevsky greatly contributed to the development of the open source hypervisor Xen, which now is a leading virtualization engine, powering virtual infrastructures and public cloud computing infrastructures like Amazon EC2. I wrote about Katana for the first time in December 2004 , quoting an article from ARNnet. I’ve met Alex for the first time in June 2007: we were both speaking at the same virtualization conference in NYC. In the early days of virtualization, the biggest competitor of Virtual Iron was XenSource. Simon Crosby, founder and former CTO at XenSource and now CTO at Citrix, just published some words about Alex Vasilevsky. Labels: Leadership , Virtual Computer , Virtual Iron

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The US startup Virtual Computer earlier this week announced its new Senior Vice President of Marketing: Andrew McKay . McKay is the co-founder and former Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Attivio, a software company focused on enterprise search solutions. From 2002 to 2006 McKay has been the Vice President of Sales, Technical Sales and Product Marketing at Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), acquired by Microsoft in early 2008. Labels: Leadership , Virtual Computer

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Citrix has just hired Roland Wartenberg , the SAP Chief Virtualization Evangelist. Wartenberg has been in SAP since 1997, covering multiple roles. In 2006 he developed the virtualization strategy for the SAP Labs division. Wartenberg has been actively involved in pushing the company’s marketing message about virtualization through the many SAP Virtualization Week events arranged around the world. He will start at Citrix in a couple of weeks, in charge of the the strategic alliance with SAP.

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Yesterday VMware announced that it has hired Jeff Casale as its new Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas business. Casale had a very long career in EMC which started in 1998, when he was the Vice President of Europe, in charge for France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and South Africa. Casale will report to Carl Eschenbach , Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations.

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Just a few days ago VMware hired Scott A. Key away from Citi. Key has worked at Citi for many years, covering different roles, including the Chief Architect for the Consumer International business. He spent the last three years at the financial institution as Senior Vice President of Virtualization. While at Citi, Key also wrote a column here at virtualization.info: Managing the Virtual Infrastructure . VMware appointed him as its new Director of Solutions Marketing for the Financial Services Industry and virtualization.info wishes him the best for this new job.

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While VMware continues to morph its corporate mission by acquiring more companies in the SaaS and PaaS cloud computing markets and continues to change its leadership team , its stock performance continues to improve. This is what happened in the last two years, starting mid June 2008, just two weeks before Paul Maritz replaced Diane Greene as CEO of the company and VMware started to expand in completely new markets: EMC continues to own about 80% of the company and from time to time buys additional shares to keep its control at that level. It seems the case for the last investment: EMC bought 90,000 VMW shares, equal to $6.2M, as reported by TheStreet . In April EMC bought 160,000 VMW shares , equal to $9.1M.

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Last week virtualization.info covered the departure of Andrew Lee , the VMware’s former Director of Corporate Business Development, in charge for a number of acquisitions, including the SpringSource one . But apparently there’s much more going on in Palo Alto: virtualization.info got a hint that Jocelyn Goldfein , Vice President and General Manager of the Desktop Business Unit, is gone too. The news is not official, and there’s no trace of changes on her LinkedIn profile or in the VMware’s Leadership page , but we are able to confirm that she’s no more at VMware. Goldfein is officially on sabbatical and the BU reports to Raghu Raghuram , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Virtualization and Cloud Platforms. On top of that, there are other, unconfirmed at this point, movements around the desktop division: Patrick Harr , the Vice President of Desktop Virtualization Sales and Marketing, is apparently now focused just on sales, while Vittorio Viarengo , Vice President of Desktop Products stepped in to lead the desktop marketing effort.

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In April the startup Hyper9 lost his Senior R&D Scientist Schley Andrew Kutz , popular on the virtualization scene thanks to his reverse engineering work of the VMware vCenter plug-in architecture, and father of many tools that the company released in the last year. Hyper9 hired Kutz just one year ago , bringing in his intellectual property about the Virtualization Manager Mobile and the SVMotion GUI plug-in . Kutz moved to EMC where he’s working as Principal Software Engineer. On top of that, Hyper9 loses today its founder and CTO Dave McCrory , virtualization.info has just learned. McCrory just left to pursue new opportunities and he’s rumored to be working on a new startup already. So far Hyper9 had a very complex story. Founded by McCrory and other former Surgient employees, it entered the market in November 2006 with the name of InovaWave. It used to develop a product to optimize the VMware ESX performance (initially called DXTreme for ESX and then renamed in VirtualOctane ). In February 2008, for undisclosed reasons, the company decided to completely change its brand identity, renaming itself in Hyper9 , and to completely shift its technology focus.

In July 2009 VMware hired Fred King , former General Manager of Technology Alliances & Channels in the Australian & New Zealand region at Oracle, as his new Director of Partners for the same geography. Less than one year after that, King leaves the company as ARN just reported . VMware doesn’t have a replacement yet.

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Exactly one year ago virtualization.info covered the departure of a notable number of PlateSpin executives from Novell . There’s no way to know how many members of PlateSpin are still at Novell after the acquisition, but apparently the departures continue: Ari Glaizel , co-founder of PlateSpin and main develop of the mighty PowerConvert, has been the Product Manager of PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin Protect for almost two years and a half at Novell. He just left to join NexJ Systems as Senior Product Manager. Peter Dyer has been Product Manager of PlateSpin Recon for almost one year and a half in Novell. He left in January to join Veeam as Systems Engineer. One of the original PlateSpin executives still at Novell is John Stetic , currently Director of Product Management at Novell.

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