Red Hat Taps Former Microsoft Exec as New Server Virtualization Chief

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 3, 2013

Red Hat today announced the appointment of Radhesh Balakrishnan as the new global leader for Red Hat’s virtualization infrastructure solutions. Balakrishnan will now oversee the market development for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) as well as the upcoming Red Hat OpenStack Enterprise release. Balakrishnan comes to Red Hat by way of arch-nemesis Microsoft, where he spent the last 14 years of his career

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