Alex Fine CEO, Virtuozzo

Virtuozzo, provider of virtualization software for the past 18 years, appointed Alex Fine as its CEO.

He brings a track record of leading revenue growth for global high-tech organizations including CloudBlue, Ingram Micro, Odin and Parallels.

He joins Virtuozzo at a critical time as the company enters the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) marketplace with its Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform.

“Virtuozzo has been extremely successful providing virtualization and software-defined storage solutions to service providers around the world for quite a few years, and we remain committed to serving this segment with more innovation,” he says. “We also see ongoin change in the kind of IT infrastructure that many organizations are choosing for running key business applications, so we are evolving our roadmap with increased focus that meets new customer expectations.”

MarketsandMarkets estimates that the hyperconverged infrastructure market will grow by 43.6% annually between now and 2022 to reach $12.6 billion.

“Our Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform will deliver hyperconvergence of compute, storage and virtual networking in a single stack with unified management and multi-tenancy support so that IT organizations can build scalable, high-performance cloud or virtual datacenter infrastructure on commodity hardware to reduce costs and enable business growth,” Fine adds.

A long-time veteran of the Parallels family of businesses, Fine was initially responsible in 2006 for managing the emerging Parallels Desktop division in Europe, Middle East, Africa and AsiaPac. He later expanded Parallels’ business presence in Africa, where he drove revenue growth as the company evolved into the Odin brand. After Ingram Micro’s acquisition of Odin, he stayed with the Odin team to lead sales in EMEA until joining Virtuozzo.