MOUNTAIN VIEW DATA TAPS INDUSTRY VETERANS TO FORM ADVISORY BOARD
Oct 19th, 15:07 UTC
Rok Sosic, Jim Buckley and Jack Steeg Join MVD Advisory Board
Mountain View, 18 Oct 2006 - Mountain View Data, Inc., a leading provider of provisioning and management software for Linux and Windows servers, today announced the formation of the MVD Advisory Board. The board will initially include three highly respected computer industry veterans: Dr. Rok Sosic, chief technical officer of Axceleon, Mr. Jim Buckley, a consulting chief financial officer, and Mr. Jack Steeg, vice president and general manager at Relativity Technologies. The board meets with Mountain View Data CEO, Cliff Miller, once per month to discuss business strategy.
Sosic has been involved in distributed computing for over 20 years. A patent holder, Sosic has contributed over 40 professional and academic papers to the field and has received numerous awards for his research. After research and teaching stints early in his career at Xerox Parc and at the School of Computing at Griffith University, he founded and ran Active Tools, which was acquired by TurboLinux. Sosic served as CTO at TurboLinux, architecting and leading the development of clustering and operating system products. In his current CTO role at Axceleon, he leads development of software for grid computing.
Buckley has 30 years of experience in senior financial roles in start-ups and public companies. He has a proven track record in improving profitability, streamlining operations, raising capital, and consummating mergers & acquisitions. Buckley has held CFO positions at Airespace, Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.), Commission Junction (acquired by ValueClick, Inc.), CyberSource Corporation, Cygnus Solutions (acquired by Red Hat), and GET Manufacturing (acquired by Jabil Circuits).
Steeg has a 35-year track record in the computer industry with in-depth knowledge of financial services and experience in building and managing global alliance programs. He started his career at NCR where he served for 26 years, winding up as vice president of World Wide Partners. In 1996, Steeg was recruited by Dell to build the Global Alliances organization in the Server Group. He was instrumental in boosting Dell's server volume to market leader status from the number 12 position in just three years. Steeg has recently joined Relativity Technologies where he is building a world-class partner alliances program.
Miller began recruiting advisory board members earlier in the year. "I was looking for a mix of people with deep technical, financial and marketing skills who could advise me," said Miller. "Jim, Jack and Rok are the perfect combination - the Three Wise Men. With them my job is easy. I just need to open my ears."
Miller expects to expand the board membership as the company grows.
About Mountain View Data
Mountain View Data is a developer of server management and provisioning software for the enterprise. Its flagship product, PowerCockpit, is currently being used in over 100 corporate data centers and laboratories at IBM, HP, AMD, Sony, Toshiba, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Oracle, the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Energy and others.
Mountain View Data was founded in October of 2000, and has offices in the US, Japan and China. Mountain View Data was selected in September of 2005 by Red Herring as one of the top 100 private companies in Asia. More information can be found at the company's website at www.mountainviewdata.com.
About PowerCockpit
PowerCockpit from Mountain View Data is server management software for deploying, provisioning and managing up to 1000s of servers running the Linux and the Windows operating systems. It can deploy to physical or virtual machines - supporting VMware and Xen VMs - in any combination of P2P, P2V, V2P of V2V.
PowerCockpit uses proprietary "Smart Imaging" technology to deploy and update complete OS and application stacks from a custom image repository to multiple hardware configurations in minutes, using multicasting. Its Request Daemon API and software development kit (SDK) allow system integrators and third parties to develop plug-in modules for specific tasks as well as applications for vertical markets.
More information can be found at www.powercockpit.com.
(Submitted by Cliff Miller of Mountain View Data, Inc.)
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