Univa UD Unveils New Strategy

LISLE, Ill. -- Univa UD, a leading provider of data center automation and virtualization products, today announced it has named industry veterans Alex Brown and Kent Purdy to lead its data center automation business division and retool its product suite. The announcement comes as Univa UD officially launches Reliance as its cornerstone product for service-based management of application delivery environments.

Brown joins Univa UD as vice president and general manager of data center automation. With over 20 years of IT leadership experience, Brown brings a wealth of enterprise software and data center strategy expertise to Univa UD. He joins the company from Dell Computer, Inc. where he was the global leader in charge of developing Infrastructure Services solutions, most recently including Dells initial Virtualization and Data Center Power/Cooling offerings.

“With Alex’s leadership, our data center automation business is on track to exceed our goals for 2008,” said Jason Liu, President and Chief Executive Officer at Univa UD. “He brings a unique mix of strategic vision and tactical leadership expertise which has already resulted in Univa UD’s sharpening our focus in the crowded data center virtualization space to rest squarely on application-centric automation and virtualized application delivery.”

Univa Corp.