Caesar Naples VP of Engineering, AutoVirt

AutoVirt, Inc. announced two developments intended to advance the company’s standing as provider of data migration and global namespace software.  

The first is the general availability of version 3.6 (v3.6) of its AutoVirt software, featuring key enhancements that will enable its strategic channel partners and end users to plan and execute data migrations more quickly and easily.  

The second is the appointment of a software innovator, Caesar Naples, to the position of Vice President of Engineering.  

AutoVirt v3.6 Enhancements include:

• Error Handling – Virtually all data migrations encounter errors which can stall, if not completely halt, the migration. AutoVirt v3.6 improves the process of error identification and resolution. After identifying all errors, AutoVirt retries the migration on only those files which encountered errors. This targeted method of managing errors saves time over the course of the migration.  
• Reporting – AutoVirt v3.6 provides the ability to drill-down further into specific migration events and an improved graphical user interface (GUI) dashboard that features real-time migration status reporting and notifications.  
• Intelligent Data Engine Placement – AutoVirt v3.6 can be deployed locally or remotely (i.e., on migration sources and/or destinations) providing the ability to virtually eliminate network impact during data migrations.
• Migration Validation – AutoVirt v3.6 provides the ability to confirm consistency between migration source and destination. 

"In spite of all the data center virtualization efforts that seek to create a unified storage management framework, NAS environments in most companies continue to be fragmented and poorly utilized. AutoVirt solves these challenges by allowing IT administrators to non-disruptively move data between frames while creating a unified namespace. These capabilities are further enhanced in v3.6 with improved error handling and intelligent data engine placement," said Ashish Nadkarni, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group.  

In addition to releasing v3.6, AutoVirt has appointed Caesar Naples to the position of Vice President of Engineering.

"I’m very excited to be joining the AutoVirt team. AutoVirt’s global namespace is an incredibly powerful remedy to a major source of pain for IT administrators today. Their out-of-band approach provides a non-intrusive, scalable, cost-effective solution. That, coupled with state-of-the-art data mobility tools, will allow AutoVirt to redefine data management," said Caesar Naples, Vice President of Engineering, AutoVirt. "Additionally the feature enhancements in AutoVirt v3.6 echo this philosophy and are the direct result of strategic channel partner and end user feedback. AutoVirt v3.6 will help enable our customers to complete their business critical data center initiatives, as well as finally be able to address those ‘back-burner’ projects."

Caesar Naples, Vice President of Engineering
 Caesar Naples brings over two decades of experience in software product development and management, including experience entrepreneurial teams and developing new systems architecture. He draws upon his experience at small and large companies to build high-energy, high-output teams. These teams build and deliver edge solutions with quality. Prior to AutoVirt, Caesar was the Director of Software Development for Iron Mountain‘s Archiving and Storage-as-a-Service line, which focuses on providing hosted search and storage technology for the management of petabytes of data. He created and led the advanced development team that architected, designed and implemented a new paradigm in search and storage platforms for Iron Mountain. Caesar joined Iron Mountain through the acquisition of Connected, where he led Software Development and QA teams for the company’s email archiving products. Previously, he was Chief Architect and Development Manager for Cisco‘s high-performance network security product, Access Registrar. Earlier in his career, Naples was instrumental in designing the ‘next generation’ distributed search platform for Lexis/Nexis. Caesar holds a BS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.