In episode 155, Douglas Brown interviews Lou Shipley, President and CEO at VMTurbo. Lou and Douglas discuss VMTurbo’s Intelligent Workload Management for Cloud and Virtualized Environments solution. Lou discusses what’s new, the different versions VMTurbo offers, a bit about their free solution, why we should care, how they are different and better than the competition, what we can look forward to in the future, and much more.
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About VMTurbo
VMTurbo’s virtual appliances use patented analytics to automate key
virtualization management operational procedures. These include complex workload balancing, real time & continuous rightsizing, and virtual infrastructure performance & capacity management. Our solution increases virtual infrastructure utilization by more than 50%, while eliminating the risk of virtual machine performance degradation and downtime. VMTurbo provides the only virtualization management solution that combines monitoring (Observe), analytics (Advise) and actions (Automate), for proactive, rather than reactive management. VMTurbo is headquartered in Valhalla, NY, minutes from New York City. We are led and advised by the cofounders of SMARTS, a leading systems and network management vendor, which was acquired by EMC in 2005 for $285 million. Our company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, please visit
www.vmturbo.com
About Lou Shipley - President and CEO
Prior to joining VMTurbo, Lou was General Manager of
Citrix Xen Products Group. Previously, he was President and CEO of Reflectent Software, an end user application performance monitoring company acquired by Citrix in 2006. Lou was General Manager of the Citrix Management Systems group, then took on the role as General Manager of Citrix XenServer when Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007. He joined Reflectent after working as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners. Prior to Highland, Lou served as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for WebLine Communications, a customer contact center software company acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for $325 million. Previously to WebLine, Lou served as Vice President of Americas and Pacific operations at Avid Technology. He joined Avid as a startup and oversaw growth to over $450 million in revenue. Lou also founded and served as President of Avid Japan, KK. Lou is a graduate of Trinity College and Harvard Business School, and is a Guest Lecturer at MIT Sloan School. He serves as a Trustee at Westminster School in Simsbury, CT and is on the Board of Directors at
Xtranormal.com.
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