3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has appointed Justin Barney to vice president of Worldwide Sales. Barney brings more than ten years of sales and management experience to 3Leaf Systems, with a proven track record of success selling enterprise-class infrastructure solutions to Fortune 500 and global online e-businesses. Reporting directly to CEO and president, B.V. Jagadeesh, Barney will be responsible for driving the global availability of 3Leaf’s virtualization solutions.

“We are excited to have Justin Barney help the company build a world-class sales organization that can work with our customers to innovate and implement flexible and cost-efficient data center virtualization solutions,” said B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO and president of 3Leaf Systems. “Justin is a seasoned sales pro who has helped build and lead strategic, high-caliber sales organizations that can sell to Fortune 500 and Internet-centric companies. He will be invaluable to 3Leaf as we expand the availability of our server virtualization solutions.”

Barney’s appointment comes at a time when demand for server virtualization solutions is expanding rapidly. A recent survey conducted by Forrester Research found that more than a third of enterprise IT departments have implemented x86 server virtualization, and nearly two-thirds expect to do so by 2009. 3Leaf Systems is on the leading edge of this trend, helping businesses migrate from traditional data center operations to fully virtualized environments that enable on-demand resource availability, flexibility, maximized efficiency, and significant cost savings. 3Leaf Systems’ I/O, compute, and memory virtualization technologies enable a dynamic data center that is able to rapidly respond to the changing requirements of the enterprise while at the same time dramatically reducing costs.

“3Leaf’s value proposition of providing a better way to deploy data center resources while significantly reducing costs is straightforward and compelling, and its virtualization technology and solutions are absolutely unique in the marketplace,” said Justin Barney. “I look forward to working with 3Leaf to expand its leadership position in the market.”

Prior to joining 3Leaf Systems, Barney was a vice president of sales at Citrix Systems, a leader in application delivery infrastructure. There, he was responsible for sales and field marketing for all major Citrix software and hardware products in the Western Region, the number one sales region for the products and solutions under Barney’s management from 2005-2007. In addition to managing sales organizations, Barney proved himself to be an outstanding salesman, having been number one in sales attainment from 2003 to 2004 at NetScaler, a leader in high-performance application delivery systems acquired by Citrix. Barney has also held positions at JPMorgan Partners and served with the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Barney received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.