David Patrick, CEO of Ximian before it was sold to Novell in 2003 and then general manager of Novell's Linux, NetWare and open source operation, has turned up as CEO of Xkoto, a clustered grid-scale database load balancing start-up. Coincidently, the company just got a $7.5 million B round led by GrandBanks Capital to add to its initial $10 million funding. Patrick replaces co-founder Albert Lee, who become Xkoto's chief strategy officer. The two-year-old company's in Toronto. Patrick, a WordStar, Ashton-Tate and Lotus survivor, will be in Boston.rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
Over time, as new investment in software at...
Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
