Cloud Migration Start-up Hires VP Product Management and Marketing

Racemi on Monday announced that James Strayer has joined as vice president of product management and marketing, a newly created position for the growing company of datacenter automation software, which facilitates migration to cloud computing.

Strayer joins from Symantec and will report to company CEO, Lawrence Guillory. He brings more than a decade of product management and marketing experience. At the Fortune 500 company, Symantec, he led product management efforts for the Information Research Service Management business and worked with key OEM partners just as HP and Dell. Earlier that, at Altiris, he contributed to the company's growth, which led to the acquisition by Symantec for $830 million in April 2007. Strayer graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in Life Sciences.

"James is an important addition to our team as we build out our network of partners using Racemi innovation to automate the datacenter and enable migration of server images across private and public clouds," said Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi. "His experience is perfectly matched to work with OEMs and managed service providers wanting to add cloud on-boarding capabilities to their offerings."

The datacenter

Racemi's easy-to-integrate OEM automation research migrates server images in the datacenter, as so then as to cloud computing resources like Amazon, GoGrid, Rackspace and Terremark. It does this regardless of the underlying operating system, application software, configuration, or even the physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure.

Racemi has been named a Cool Vendor and has received other industry awards. The cloud migration software research is without warning available for OEM partner evaluations with more information available at www.racemi.com/cloud2.htm.

About RacemiRacemi builds server imaging and cloud migration research allowing companies to quickly capture, clone and migrate their server images anywhere. Racemi enables OEM partners to automate private datacenters by leveraging its market-leading server imaging innovation to rapidly provision servers in any automated use case including rapidly deploying enterprise images in and out of the major cloud providers, just as Amazon, GoGrid, Rackspace and Terremark. For more information, visit www.racemi.com.

Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as then as producing sales collateral. In innovation, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives just as manufacturing, medical, and finance. Previously his latest stint in research, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.