Certeon Hires WAN Acceleration and Cloud Services Veteran as VP of EMEA

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Certeon, the application performance company, today announced Mark Slater as its Vice President of EMEA. This hire is further evidence of the growing demand for flexible, scalable and accessible WAN optimization in the cloud, which is only made possible through pure-software solutions like Certeon’s aCelera.

“Mark is a great addition to our organization; and, with his expertise, Certeon’s presence will expand internationally, thereby strengthening our ability to provide automated, secure and optimized cloud services for mission-critical applications to service providers globally”

Mark joins Certeon with a wealth of industry knowledge. Most recently, he was the Chief Operations Officer for Data Integration, a system integrator that was acquired by Xchanging in June, 2010. With his strong background in WAN acceleration from experience at SilverPeak, and his leadership as an architect for cloud infrastructures at Xchanging, Mark provides Certeon customers with insight that crosses boundaries between WAN optimization and the cloud from both a technical and sales perspective.

“I’m excited to join this world class team at Certeon,” said Mark Slater, VP of EMEA, Certeon. “There is enormous potential to employ cloud services for global organizations’ mission-critical applications, and software-based WAN optimization is the key component. Certeon’s solution, as a pure-software product, presents the ideal architecture to make applications in the cloud a reality for many who remain wary of transitioning their infrastructure. aCelera’s ability to provide superior performance, as well as its massive scalability and flexibility in comparison with other vendors’ hardware and first generation software solutions, is an exciting prospect to showcase globally.”

“Mark is a great addition to our organization; and, with his expertise, Certeon’s presence will expand internationally, thereby strengthening our ability to provide automated, secure and optimized cloud services for mission-critical applications to service providers globally,” said Peter Dougherty, Founder and CEO, Certeon. “The market is recognizing that the flexibility of a software solution is the only means for delivering application acceleration in the cloud. aCelera offers a higher level of performance and lower cost, no matter what type of cloud is being deployed.”

About Certeon

Certeon is the application performance company. With Certeon, enterprises and cloud providers successfully realize key initiatives including consolidation, virtualization, replication and application SLA’s. Certeon’s aCelera is the only software-based product that is hypervisor agnostic, hardware agnostic and cost effective. aCelera’s ability to provide automated, secure and optimized access to centralized applications at the lowest possible TCO make aCelera a cornerstone of enterprise and cloud provider infrastructures. Additional information about Certeon is available at www.certeon.com.