VMTurbo, the only demand-driven control platform for the
software-defined universe, today announced the formation of its
Technology Steering Council (TSC), a forum for industry thought leaders
to discuss IT data center management challenges and growth trends. Top
executives from Hewlett-Packard, including Committee Chairman Bill
Veghte, Barclays and Red Hat will join VMTurbo CEO, Ben Nye, and Founder
and President, Shmuel Kliger, for the group’s inaugural meeting.
“Great companies are always listening to their customers, partners and
more broadly the market,” said Technology Steering Council Chairman and
Executive Vice President of HP Enterprise Group, Bill Veghte. “VMTurbo
has great technology in a critical segment of the market and I look
forward to working with the other members of the TSC to be a sounding
board and partnering resource to help them be successful.”
TSC members will initially set out the group’s major goals as well as
discuss topics and challenges facing the industry, including the
increasing popularity of containers, the replacement of hard drives by
flash-based SSD arrays, the future of application control, network
virtualization and more.
“The challenges addressed during these meetings are of great importance
to the financial sector,” said Ian Penny, Managing Director and Head of
Distributed Technology at Barclays. “We bring a strategic perspective to
these talks as a large consumer of information technology and look
forward to collaborating with VMTurbo, HP and Red Hat to tackle the most
pressing issues of the day.”
“Through active collaboration and cooperation among different members of
the IT community we can create better technology solutions for our
customers,” said Joe Fitzgerald, Vice President and General Manager of
Cloud Management at Red Hat. “We look forward to engaging with industry
leaders VMTurbo, HP and Barclays in important conversations about data
center innovation and the future of IT.”
Over time, TSC members will engage in private forums with the goal of
embracing and learning from challenges arising from the fast pace of IT
change as well as recognizing and responding to new trends as quickly as
possible.
“We’re excited to have strong industry leaders like Barclays, HP and Red
Hat help guide the direction of our real-time application demand control
technology,” said VMTurbo CEO Ben Nye. “VMTurbo’s mission is to ensure
customers’ data center operations are safe to adopt new technologies
while their core operates with complete resiliency and efficiency.”
“For the past four decades, data center management has been too reactive
and labor intensive,” said VMTurbo Founder and President Shmuel Kliger.
“Real-time demand-driven control allows our customers to maintain their
data centers perpetually in a healthy state.”
For the third consecutive year, VMTurbo was named to Forbes’
Most Promising Companies in America for 2015, a list ranking 100
privately held companies experiencing high growth and bright futures.
This award follows the announcement of the company closing $50
million in Series D funding, led by leading Silicon Valley Venture
Capital firm ICONIQ Capital.