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Levanta Bolsters Management Team in Preparation for Expansion Into Data Center Automation(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Levanta, a provider of Linux data center automation, announced several new additions to its management team. Eric Gries, Anil Uberoi, and Frank Calderon come on board to Levanta as CEO, CMO, and vice president of sales, respectively. Gries, Uberoi, and Calderon join current CFO Dan Lee and vice president of engineering Madhur Kohli. "As Linux moves into mainstream business-critical deployments, customers are looking for sophisticated enterprise-grade system management solutions for Linux," said Eric Gries, CEO of Levanta. "We see significant opportunities for Levanta's best-of-breed, turnkey solutions that seamlessly manage physical and virtual Linux environments. With products that have already been proven as cost- effective ways to manage Linux servers, we are well-positioned to capitalize on the continued growth of Linux in enterprise data centers, joining the ranks of other data center heavy hitters like BladeLogic and OpsWare." Levanta's new executives will leverage their experience in providing enterprise solutions to help guide the company in its expansion into data center automation. "Market research shows that the systems management costs are growing at four times the expense of server hardware and that systems management costs now represent 60 percent of the total costs of running a data center," said Anil Uberoi, chief marketing officer at Levanta. "For enterprises running Linux in the data center, the relative systems management costs are even higher, mitigating most, if not all, of the TCO advantages associated with running Linux on commodity hardware. For most of our customers the Levanta solutions have paid for themselves, in direct savings, in less than 20 weeks." Gries joins Levanta after serving as CEO of Evolved Networks. He has held leadership positions with a track record of building high-value solutions for large enterprises both in and out of Silicon Valley. Eric was previously the CEO of XACCT, a company he led from its inception to its successful sale to Amdocs in late 2004. Prior to XACCT, Eric was the GM of the Network and Systems Management Division at Compuware. Earlier, he held various management positions at DEC and Cullinet Software. Uberoi comes to Levanta from BackFlip Software, where he was the President. Prior to BackFlip, he was Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development at XACCT until its 2004 acquisition by Amdocs, where he then became VP of Global Marketing. Before XACCT, Anil spearheaded the launch of Netopia line of routers leading to a successful IPO of Farallon Communications. Earlier, Anil led marketing for the Networking Products Group (including the network management platform) at Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining Levanta, Dan Lee was the Corporate Controller for Wind River Systems, where he orchestrated the financial aspects of a $102 million public offering and a $140 million convertible offering, resulting in a $1 billion market capitalization. Dan was most recently the CFO of ECbridges, a privately held software company specializing in e-commerce systems for global 1000 enterprises. Calderon has over twenty-five years of experience with strategic sales and business development. He began his career in sales with IBM. Frank has held senior level positions at several high tech businesses, including Datalogics, Inc., Frame Technology, Inc., and ACI, US. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development, he has acquired a deep understanding of the implementation of solutions in the enterprise. Kohli comes to Levanta after 17 years at Bell Communications Research and Bell Laboratories, where he directed and contributed to diverse research and development efforts in several areas. Madhur has been one of the leading practitioners in the field of Policy Based Management, and was actively involved with the IEEE International Policy Workshop since its inception, chairing it in 2004. The policy infrastructure created by Madhur has been used to construct and enhance several Lucent products, such as the Lucent SoftSwitch, AnyPath Messaging Server, iContent Layer 7 switch and iOptimize network optimizer. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright 2007 Wireless News |