AppZero today announced that Simon Crosby,
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
for the Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix Systems, was elected to
AppZero's board of directors.
"AppZero knocks down barriers to infrastructure agility, making it fast and
easy to move server applications to - and from -- any machine on any cloud,"
said Greg O'Connor, AppZero's CEO. "In addition to the practical and strategic
experience Simon brings to this board, his presence spotlights our
innovation."
"AppZero application virtualization is a
perfect complement to cloud computing. It enables IT users
to get all of the benefits of cloud without the complexity of packaging and
porting virtual machines," said Crosby. "By solving real customer problems, they
are poised for success."
Simon took on the role as CTO of the Datacenter and Cloud Division at Citrix
when the company acquired XenSource, where he was a founder and CTO. Prior to
XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic
research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He
also founded CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held
a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a
tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research
on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is
author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and
networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource
optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one
of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs.