-- Red Hat realigns Products and Technologies organization to
capitalize on open hybrid cloud, next-generation technologies
-- Longtime Red Hat executive Craig Muzilla to lead newly-formed
Applications Platform Group
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Tim Yeaton, former chief executive
officer of Black Duck Software and a onetime Red Hat executive, has
rejoined Red Hat in the newly-created position of senior vice president,
Infrastructure Group. In this capacity, Yeaton will oversee the products
and programs that are driving Red Hat's infrastructure and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business, including the Platform,
Virtualization and OpenStack businesses, and Red Hat's Cloud Management
product line. Yeaton joins Red Hat as the company realigns its existing
Products and Technologies organization to take advantage of technology
convergence — from Linux and OpenStack to middleware and
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) — and capitalize on growing interest in
open hybrid cloud.
In addition to the Infrastructure Group led by Yeaton, Red Hat also
today appointed its longtime Middleware general manager, Craig Muzilla,
as senior vice president of the company's newly-formed Applications
Platform Group. In his new role, Muzilla will be responsible for Red
Hat's developer-focused products and programs, including Red Hat JBoss
Middleware and OpenShift by Red Hat, the company's PaaS offering. As
head of Red Hat's Middleware business, Muzilla has been instrumental in
helping to drive Red Hat's multi-product strategy and diverse portfolio,
establish Red Hat as one of the industry's top middleware providers,
greatly expand the company's middleware offerings, and increase its
presence among developers. Red Hat's Storage and Big Data team will
continue to operate as a separate business, led by Sarangan Rangachari.
Yeaton brings more than 30 years of software and technology management
experience to his new role at Red Hat. Under Yeaton's leadership as its
CEO, Black Duck has experienced more than 30 percent annualized
year-over-year growth, completed three major acquisitions, created a
joint venture in greater China, and built a worldwide operation with a
presence in 23 countries. Prior to joining Black Duck, Yeaton was chief
marketing officer at EqualLogic until its acquisition by Dell in 2008,
and as Dell's Vice President of the Nashua (N.H.) Design Center, he led
the integration of the two companies and managed Dell's operations in
the region.
Prior to EqualLogic, Yeaton spent several years at Red Hat as senior
vice president of Worldwide Marketing and general manager of Enterprise
Solutions. During his first tenure at Red Hat, Yeaton was instrumental
in expanding the company's business into the developer and middleware
markets with acquisitions of JBoss and MetaMatrix, and built
go-to-market partnerships with companies including IBM, HP, Dell,
Oracle, and several others.
Earlier in his career, Yeaton was president, CEO and director of Avaki
Corporation, a venture-backed data management software company acquired
by Sybase (now part of SAP). Before Avaki he was senior vice president
and general manager of the Server Products Division at Macromedia (now
part of Adobe), via its acquisition of Allaire where he served as senior
vice president of Products. Tim spent the early part of his career at
Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, including a role as vice
president and general manager of Compaq's UNIX/Linux and Middleware
Software Division, where he drove Compaq's pre-IPO investment in Red Hat.
In 2009 Yeaton was named one of the Most Influential People in the Open
Source Software Industry, in a survey by Mindtouch. In 2010 he was named
a COPU Think Tank Advisor, which recognizes the key global thought
leaders in open source software. Also in 2010, the Mass. Technology
Leadership Council named Yeaton a finalist for CEO of the Year.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Over the last decade, open source and Linux have moved from a pure
commodity play in the enterprise to the defining software
development model in the industry. The cloud, and cloud-style computing,
would simply not exist as we know them today without Linux and open
source. Red Hat is in the unique position of driving many of the
significant open source community projects that are driving
next-generation enterprise technologies, and also bringing them to
market. By realigning our Products and Technologies organization, we're
well-positioned for success in driving these next-gen infrastructure,
IaaS, and developer offerings. I'm thrilled to welcome Tim back to Red
Hat at this exciting time to lead our Infrastructure Group, and to
congratulate Craig as he steps into a new role leading our Applications
Platform Group."
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Group, Red Hat
"The IT industry is at its most dramatic architectural inflection point
since the advent of client-server computing two decades ago — the
emergence of cloud-based computing. Most of the innovation happening in
cloud infrastructure, as well as in cloud enablement such as big data,
mobility, cloud management, etc., is being catalyzed by open source
technologies and community-driven development. Red Hat has an incredible
opportunity to lead these shifts in IT, and its open hybrid cloud vision
resonates strongly with many enterprise IT customers I've worked with
over the last five years while at Black Duck. For me, the opportunity to
rejoin Red Hat and lead the Group at the core of these industry changes
is a once-in-a-lifetime one, and I'm very excited to be back at Red Hat
and helping to drive the realization of the open hybrid cloud vision."
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