WOBURN, MA and LONDON, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) —
CLOUD COMPUTING WORLD FORUM – CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as
a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Michel
Goossens, former vice president EMEA for Red Hat, has joined the
company as vice president of European sales. Goossens brings over 20
years of industry experience to CloudBees, with more than 10 years
specifically focused in the middleware business. At a time of
exceptional demand for the CloudBees Platform, Goossens will drive
growth across the region as momentum for PaaS grows.
Goossens brings a wealth of success in technology sales and marketing
to CloudBees. He comes to CloudBees from e-commerce platform provider
Magento, where he was vice president and general manager of EMEA. He
rapidly built a successful sales and marketing team and, at the same
time, developed a strong ecosystem of partners. In August 2011
Magento was acquired by eBay.
Goossens’ career includes significant experience selling middleware
and open source technology. Prior to Magento, he served as vice
president for JBoss EMEA and, after Red Hat acquired JBoss, he
continued in the same role, growing JBoss revenue substantially
throughout the European region. He also served as vice president EMEA
for both Novell and SilverStream. Goossens holds a degree in computer
science from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EPHEC) in
Brussels, Belgium.
“I have worked closely with Michel throughout my tenure at JBoss and
Red Hat. I am very honored to have him join the CloudBees team.
Besides the technology depth he brings to his new role, he
understands how to help companies adopt new technologies, as well as
how to be more efficient building and managing applications,” said
Sacha Labourey, CEO and founder, CloudBees. “European organizations
are seeing that the CloudBees Java PaaS empowers development teams to
focus all of their time building value for the organization.
Business-critical applications are delivered more quickly, more cost
effectively and with higher quality. At this stage in our growth, the
leadership and success Michel brings to our European operations is a
real asset for CloudBees.”
“I am delighted to be at CloudBees. The CloudBees Platform is clearly
the leader for Java PaaS application development and deployment,”
said Michel Goossens, vice president of European sales, CloudBees.
“European companies are realizing the value they can derive from
PaaS. I have made it a priority to get out and meet CloudBees
customers and partners. They tell me that time to market pressures
are continually increasing. By using the CloudBees Platform, they are
better able to deliver quality applications more quickly, thus
addressing business needs and meeting competitive challenges with far
more agility than ever before.”
CloudBees has grown new customer acquisition substantially over the
last year or so in Europe. Overall, the company experienced a 10x
growth factor at the end of 2011, versus the prior year. During this
same period, several new System Integrator (SI) relationships were
also established. The rapid growth reflects the adoption of the
CloudBees’ PaaS for end-to-end Java application development and
deployment. Additionally, with the CloudBees AnyCloud(TM) deployment
options, European customers can deploy their applications within
Europe — with a public or private hosting service, or on-premise in
their own data center. This flexibility addresses both regulatory
requirements and transaction latency concerns.
Organizations and SIs subscribing to the CloudBees Java PaaS include:
-- Llustre, a UK-based home design retailer
-- Playfish, a UK-based developer of gaming software
-- A leading international luxury retailer, based in the UK
-- VSC Technologies, a subsidiary of French Railways and a leading
European e-commerce travel organization
-- Groupe ADEO, a global home improvement retailer
-- AXA Banque, a leading French bank
-- Xebia, an international provider of software and IT services
-- Groupe Sfeir, a French provider of IT consulting and related services
-- Octo, an IT consulting organization, located in EMEA and South America
-- Zenika, a European systems integrator
-- Oxiane, a European services company
-- Objet Direct, a global software engineering company
“We have used the CloudBees Platform to help our customers develop
applications far more quickly than they can in a traditional
development environment,” said Cyrille Le Clerc, chief technology
officer, Xebia. “Using the CloudBees PaaS, our project start-up time
is minimal — literally minutes to provision and launch a new
project. Just as importantly, we can maintain a fast pace throughout
the project, as we are not limited by resource constraints or IT
bottlenecks. This is important for our customers, who are looking for
every competitive edge they can get and need to deploy high quality
applications as fast as possible.”
For more information about the CloudBees Platform, visit:
http://www.cloudbees.com/platform-features.cb . You can also try it
for free!
About CloudBees
CloudBees (
www.cloudbees.com ) turbo-charges the way
Java applications are built and deployed to meet the rapid pace of
business in an on-line and increasingly mobile world. By eliminating
the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and administering
complex hardware and software infrastructure, we streamline and
accelerate the entire Java application lifecycle from development to
deployment. The CloudBees platform provides a set of rich services
that are easily consumed by developers, allowing them to rapidly
build and deploy new business applications with zero IT
administrative overhead. Our AnyCloud Service Architecture enables
those applications to be easily deployed to any public, regional or
enterprise cloud environment. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide
range of businesses from small startups that want to focus on quickly
creating new on-line businesses to large IT organizations that need
to rapidly respond to new business application projects.
Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees
was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite
team of middleware and open source technology professionals.
SOURCE: CloudBees
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