SoftLayer, Terremark Veterans Join independenceIT DaaS Push
November 26, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.
Former SoftLayer and Terremark Chief Marketing Officer Simon West is now an advisor to independenceIT, the desktop as a service (DaaS) upstart, Talkin’ Cloud has confirmed. West and former Terremark CFO Jose Segrera are helping independenceIT to accelerate its DaaS strategy — which leans on MSPs and other channel partners serving the SMB market.
Segrera invested in independenceIT and joined the company’s board last week. He and West are working closely with the core independenceIT team — CEO Jim Lippie, President Seth Bostock and CTO Charles Buck — to make sure the company continues to innovate amid growing DaaS and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) chatter from Amazon Workspaces, VMware Horizon and Desktone, Citrix Xen Desktop, dinCloud and upstarts like Toshiba hosted Virutal Desktop Service, among others…
Segrera has been in and around the IT market for about 20 years. He previously built a CLEC that later became AT&T Latin America. Then, he played a key role in Terremark’s shift into data centers, IT infrastructure and cloud computing. Verizon acquired Terremark for $1.4 billion in 2011. Meanwhile, IBM acquired SoftLayer — which West helped to build — in mid-2013…
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