Cloud.com Announces New Executive for Asia-Pacific Market

May 12, 2011

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Leading provider of open source cloud computing appoints industry veteran, Ken Kim, as Vice President and General Manager of Asia-Pacific to drive expansion and manage high-market demand

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloud.com, a leading provider of open source cloud computing software for public and private cloud environments, today announced Ken Kim as its Vice President and General Manager of Asia-Pacific. Ken brings over 20 years of experience in the startup and enterprise technology industry, and will be responsible for the go-to-market activities and business development in Asia-Pacific. Cloud.com has already experienced great success in the region announcing Tata Communications and Korea Telecom (KT) as customers and Kumoya as a partner.

“We are pleased to have Ken join our team. He brings with him years of experience and understanding of this regional market, and has proven his ability to deliver based on his success with previous companies,” said Sheng Liang, CEO and founder of Cloud.com. “Already demonstrated by our large customer wins, there is a huge market opportunity for cloud computing in Asia-Pacific among both service providers and enterprises. By adding an executive who exclusively focuses in this market, we hope to dominate in the region.”

With a broad range of experience working for companies like Symantec, Vontu, E2open and Accenture, Ken brings deep expertise in Asia-Pacific, business operations, and an extensive entrepreneurial background. At Symantec, Ken was most recently responsible for the M&A integration function where he oversaw the assessment and integration of numerous acquisitions globally. Ken joined Symantec and led the sales effort in Asia-Pacific and EMEA for the Data Loss Prevention product after its 2007 acquisition of Vontu, where he was Vice President of International Sales. During his tenure at Vontu, Ken also held other positions including Vice President of Professional Services and Pre-Sales. Prior to Vontu, Ken was an executive at startups including E2open and Connectify (acquired by KANA) where he was responsible for services and the Asia-Pacific market. Ken spent the first 10 years of his career at Accenture as a systems integrator, including two years in the Korea office. Ken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

“The traction Cloud.com has gained in the Asia-Pacific region is a testament to the demand from both the service providers and enterprises that are seeking effective cloud computing solutions,” said Ken. “The current success of Korea Telecom, Tata and Kumoya illustrate the robustness of the Cloud.com solution and interest from the market. I look forward to aiding in the company’s continued growth in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Cloud.com’s key successes in the Asia-Pacific market have helped with the company’s growth: Korea Telecom is using Cloud.com’s flagship technology CloudStack for both its private and public cloud services. Tata Communications is also using CloudStack for its public cloud offering, InstaCompute, to deliver services throughout India and Southeast Asia. Addressing the mounting demand for cloud computing offerings in Japan, Cloud.com has recently announced a partnership with Kumoya, who will actively market and promote Cloud.com’s technology in Japan, working with the increasing number of cloud computing-focused SI and VAR partners in the country.

Recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, Cloud.com provides customers with the fastest path to owning their own cloud by offering the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. Cloud.com currently enables over 50 large-scale clouds in production that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including KT, Nokia Research Center, Tata Communications, GreenQloud and Logicworks. Cloud.com technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.

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Open source software provider Cloud.com simplifies and accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant private and public cloud services. Cloud.com’s CloudStack software is being used to provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in production environments at leading enterprises and service providers, providing them with exceptional stability, and is unrivaled in both feature breadth and scalability. Founded in 2008 by leaders in open source, virtualization and infrastructure development, Cloud.com is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. For more information, go to www.cloud.com.