Cloudsoft Appoints Linda Bernardi to Board of Directors, Expands Management Team with Addition of Paul Wiltshire

NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Cloudsoft Corporation, a provider of cloud computing software and services that drive application mobility, today announced the appointment of Linda Bernardi to the Board of Directors, as well as the expansion of the company’s executive team with newly appointed vice president of sales, Paul Wiltshire.

“Intelligent and automated application mobility is and will continue to be one of the key challenges that enterprises face in their migration to cloud computing”

Linda Bernardi has worked with Cloudsoft as an advisor since the company’s inception. Bernardi is an avid investor in technology startups in the US and internationally, and is focused in the areas of cloud computing, edge analytics, digital media and digital media content management. In addition, she is an advisor to and sits on a number of boards. She is the chair of the board at Meteor Solutions and Banshee Bungee, sits on the board of director’s of the SETI Institute, and is an Emeritus board member at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. She also serves on the advisory council for Astia and Illuminate Ventures, among several others, and was elected as chair of the high-tech chapter of the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) in January 2009. Bernardi holds a master’s degree in applied statistics from UCLA.

“Intelligent and automated application mobility is and will continue to be one of the key challenges that enterprises face in their migration to cloud computing,” said Linda Bernardi. “Cloudsoft’s highly advanced and comprehensive application mobility strategy and innovative cloud offering will play a critical role in addressing these application mobility challenges as companies move to the cloud and work to develop sophisticated and easy to administer global cloud strategies.”

Paul Wiltshire joins Cloudsoft as vice president of sales, where he will be responsible for driving Cloudsoft’s global revenue growth and meeting increasing market demand for cloud computing software and services. Wiltshire brings more than 25 years of sales management experience in the technology sector, including senior roles at Illumix, DataPower (acquired by IBM), and Times Ten Performance Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation). Earlier in his career, he held management roles at Open Environment (now Borland), and Persistence Software (now Progress Software). Throughout his career, Wiltshire has consistently delivered sustained revenue growth while building sales teams that reliably exceed targets.

“We are thrilled to welcome Linda to Cloudsoft’s Board of Directors where she can share her broad industry experience as well as market insight as we take the company to the next level,” said Derek Gray, co-founder and chairman of Cloudsoft. “This is an exciting period of expansion and market opportunity for Cloudsoft and Linda represents the highest caliber of people we are bringing on board to help us shape the future of the cloud computing market. Likewise, Paul’s extensive experience and proven skill-set will help us to build upon our success and extend the reach of the market-defining Monterey solution.”

About Cloudsoft

Cloudsoft provides cloud middleware and services that enable the development, deployment and runtime management of policy-driven enterprise applications in the cloud. The company's innovative approach to application middleware minimizes time-to-market while providing the uncompromising performance and on-demand scalability required to reliably meet the business needs of the most data-intensive and dynamic computing environments.

Cloudsoft's enterprise class cloud platform, Monterey, implements fine-grained application mobility enabling dynamic change to some or all of the infrastructure utilized by an application without any service disruption to end users. Monterey's patented middleware technology eliminates network and processing bottlenecks, optimizes resource management, and significantly reduces deployment costs in both legacy and cloud environments.

Cloudsoft maintains partnerships with leading high-performance computing and cloud innovators. Its forthcoming Monterey Spring Edition will be fully integrated with the SpringSource Tool Suite™, providing Spring developers with a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service offering which radically simplifies building, running and managing elastic applications that can span the globe. The Monterey Spring Edition will be launched at SpringOne 2GX in October 2010.