-- Bacon has more than 17 years of experience in product development and
planning, leading efforts at companies such as Vendavo Inc., Siebel
Systems, GT Capital Management, Oracle Corp. and MicroStrategy.
-- Most recently, he served as chief technology officer and senior vice
president of product management at Vendavo Inc., a leading provider of B2B
price optimization solutions. During his tenure, the company shipped its
largest-ever product release and more than doubled its revenues.
-- Prior to Vendavo, Bacon served as group vice president of application
technology at Siebel Systems (now part of Oracle), where he had
responsibility for Siebel's Enterprise CRM application platforms, which
were deployed by 4,000 customers worldwide.
-- Bacon holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and attended the
Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.
Quotes
From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "Skip adds tremendous product
planning expertise and will take the lead in ensuring that innovation and
product quality continue to be hallmarks of NetWisdom, as we move to
aggressively accelerate our development lifecycle in order to meet customer
demand."
From Skip Bacon, Vice President of Products, Virtual Instruments:
"Companies must look to products like NetWisdom to optimize and ensure the
business success of their virtual IT infrastructure. Virtual Instruments is
clearly poised to become a key player as virtualization is rapidly becoming
an essential component of every data center. Having deep visibility into
the SAN infrastructure, enabled by SAN instrumentation, sets Virtual
Instruments apart from all other monitoring and analysis vendors. I look
forward to working with the excellent team at Virtual Instruments to
deliver industry-leading virtual infrastructure instrumentation to data
centers around the world."
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments' award-winning NetWisdom solution monitors
application-to-SAN transaction performance
-- with deep insight and data not available from other solutions. Customers
such as Barclay's Card Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp.
achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by
optimizing utilization, performance and availability. Leading system and
storage vendors including IBM, HP and EMC leverage NetWisdom to design SAN
solutions for enterprise customers. Virtual Instruments was founded in
June 2008 via the spin-out from Finisar Corp. (Contact Information: Contact Info: Elizabeth Hilton Eastwick Communications 650-480-4018 ehilton@eastwick.com
