Skytap

Skytap Announces Integration with Precisely Assure MIMIX to Offer High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution for Cloud-Based IBM i Workloads

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the cloud, today announced a turn-key high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution for IBM i production workloads that integrates Assure MIMIX from data integrity leader Precisely with Skytap on Azure.

Key Points: 
  • Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the cloud, today announced a turn-key high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution for IBM i production workloads that integrates Assure MIMIX from data integrity leader Precisely with Skytap on Azure.
  • Precisely Assure MIMIX is the world’s leading high availability and disaster recovery solution for IBM i with thousands of companies depending on it to protect their business against data loss and eliminate downtime.
  • The integration of Assure MIMIX into Skytap on Azure now provides a native solution to replicate IBM i workloads and ensure high availability data in the cloud.
  • Skytap and Precisely have also enabled consumption-based pricing for Assure MIMIX through the Azure Marketplace, allowing enterprises to modernize their technology along with the way they purchase it.

Skytap Hires Nutanix, HPE & Cisco Tech Veteran Rahul Tripathi as Chief Product and Technology Officer

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the cloud, today announced the appointment of Rahul Tripathi as Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead the companys Product and Engineering teams.

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  • Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the cloud, today announced the appointment of Rahul Tripathi as Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead the companys Product and Engineering teams.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221208005221/en/
    Prior to joining Skytap, Tripathi was the CTO and General Manager of Services and Solutions Engineering at Nutanix.
  • Before Nutanix, Tripathi was VP of Product Management and Engineering at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, transforming a $1B IT Operations Management (ITOM) Software and SaaS portfolio.
  • Rahul has over 25 years of IT industry experience building innovative products and scaling high-impact technology organizations, said Brad Schick, CEO at Skytap.

Falkon Rounds Out Leadership Team with New Heads of Marketing and Sales

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

SEATTLE, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Falkon, the go-to-market intelligence platform, today announced two additional appointments to its executive team. Shannon Yost recently joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer, and Adam Jay will lead sales as Chief Revenue Officer. The pair are a pivotal add for the go-to-market strategy of the company and positions the organization for sales and revenue growth.

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  • Shannon Yost recently joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer, and Adam Jay will lead sales as Chief Revenue Officer.
  • Yost joins Falkon with more than twenty-five years of marketing experience in the tech industry, most recently from San Francisco-based Outlier AI, where she was head of product marketing for the augmented analytics provider.
  • Prior to this position, the Seattle-based, award-winning executive held leadership roles at Skytap, Base2, and Bsquare.
  • Jay is joining Falkon with more than a decade in sales leadership experience, most recently from Oncue, where he served as the Vice President of Revenue.

Madrona Awards 2022 Madrona Prize to UW Video Projects that Make Video Content Searchable Without Trained Models

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

VOCAL ( Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics) system enables users to extract semantic information from large quantities of unlabeled data without pre-trained models.

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  • VOCAL ( Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics) system enables users to extract semantic information from large quantities of unlabeled data without pre-trained models.
  • Ph.D. students Maureen Daum, Enhao Zhang, and Dong He worked together on the two VOCAL sub-projects that received the prize: Video Organization and Exploration and video search technology called Interactive Video Analytics for Compositional Queries.
  • Madrona always awards the Madrona Prize at the end of the Allen Schools annual Industry Affiliates Research Day for projects that combine excellent research with strong commercial potential.
  • Madrona manages $3 billion and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon, Smartsheet, Snowflake, Apptio, Redfin, and UI Path.

SimplePractice Appoints Ian Knox as Chief Product Officer

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

SimplePractice , an EngageSmart solution and industry-leading platform simplifying the health and wellness experience, announced the appointment of Ian Knox as Chief Product Officer.

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  • SimplePractice , an EngageSmart solution and industry-leading platform simplifying the health and wellness experience, announced the appointment of Ian Knox as Chief Product Officer.
  • Knox brings over 20 years of product leadership experience to SimplePractice.
  • Ive been impressed with the companys customer obsession and the teams focus on building solutions that are simple yet powerful, said SimplePractice Chief Product Officer Ian Knox.
  • Knox joins an already robust leadership team that includes Founder and Advisor Ralph Zimmerman, Chief Customer Officer Alex Marrache , Chief Marketing Officer Smita Wadhawan , Chief Information Officer Martin Ignatovski and SVP Engineering Jonathan Myron.

Menlo Security Names John Wrobel Chief Revenue Officer and Todd Wilson Vice President of Global Channels

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced that John Wrobel has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and Todd Wilson has joined as vice president of global channels.

Key Points: 
  • Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced that John Wrobel has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and Todd Wilson has joined as vice president of global channels.
  • With a track record of proven success growing revenue, building teams and business development at both startups and mature companies, Wrobel brings over 20 years of experience to Menlo Security.
  • He was previously with NetApp, most recently as vice president, cloud data service, sales, and business development.
  • Todd Wilson has been named vice president of global channels.

Skytap Hires New CFO as Company Experiences Accelerated Revenue and Customer Growth

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

As CFO, Silver will play a critical role in helping the company build on its momentum in revenue and customer growth.

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  • As CFO, Silver will play a critical role in helping the company build on its momentum in revenue and customer growth.
  • Skytaps business has accelerated through 2022 and Silver will help the company continue that expansion.
  • Customers using Skytap to migrate IBM Power to Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud have grown dramatically in 2022.
  • Skytap is a cloud service purpose-built to natively run traditional systems in Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.

Skytap Named a Microsoft Global ISV Partner

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power workloads natively in the cloud, announced it has been named to the Microsoft Global Independent Software Vendor (GISV) Program.

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  • Skytap , the industry-leading service to run traditional IBM Power workloads natively in the cloud, announced it has been named to the Microsoft Global Independent Software Vendor (GISV) Program.
  • Skytaps inclusion in the Microsoft GISV Program will improve usability for joint customers and give Microsoft partners better access to Skytap on Azure through deeper integrations between Skytap and Microsofts Sales, Marketing, and Engineering teams.
  • Skytap introduced Skytap on Azure in February of 2020, a cloud service resulting from a tight engineering collaboration between Skytap and Microsoft to enable organizations to run cloud-stubborn IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power workloads in Microsoft Azure without rewriting or replatforming.
  • Were thrilled to be named a Microsoft Global ISV.

BigBear.ai Expands Leadership Team to Strengthen Product Development and Research

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Todd Hughes has been appointed Senior Vice President of Technology and Research, and Dan Jones has been appointed Senior Vice President of Products.

Key Points: 
  • Todd Hughes has been appointed Senior Vice President of Technology and Research, and Dan Jones has been appointed Senior Vice President of Products.
  • Our best-in-class research and product development teams are essential to our growth strategy, enabling us to meaningfully enhance the solutions we provide and accelerate our expansion into the commercial markets, said Brian Frutchey, Chief Technology Officer of BigBear.ai.
  • As SVP of Technology and Research, Hughes will manage BigBear.ais research team, driving innovations that improve the companys existing products and inform the development of new ones.
  • As SVP of Products, Jones will lead all aspects of the development of BigBear.ais next-generation AI-driven products, including vision, design, development and operations.

Rescale Appoints Frank Colich as Company’s First CFO and Mark Fieldhouse as General Manager of EMEA

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Colich will lead all aspects of the companys finance organization, including legal and investor relations, reporting to Chief Executive Officer and founder, Joris Poort.

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  • Colich will lead all aspects of the companys finance organization, including legal and investor relations, reporting to Chief Executive Officer and founder, Joris Poort.
  • Fieldhouse will oversee all aspects of the companys growth in EMEA reporting to SVP Sales, Matt McKee.
  • Frank and Mark are significant additions to Rescale.
  • Over 400 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises use Rescale to accelerate design cycles and commercialize new product innovations.