It seems that VMware’s ongoing replacement of its workforce is continuing at a steady pace!
Last week saw the departure of Chris Hammans, VMware Regional Director for UK and Ireland, and this week has been just as eventful for VMware, seeing the announcement of the departure of Joanne Syben, Senior Director of R&D, in charge for ESX R&D.
She led the Core Storage team for ESX Server, including VMKernel components, FC and iSCSI. Syben componentized core storage stack to support native and 3rd party multipathing, policy and array specific modules. She also led the SMB team to work on scale-out-storage technologies (distributed systems, clustering, replication, LVM etc.)
Syben left in September 2009 to accept a role as Vice President Engineering in Intalio, a startup focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Syben came from GreenBorder, the application virtualization stealth startup that Google acquired in June 2007. The GreenBorder technology probably is under the hood of Google Chrome.
(Article info sourced primarily from virtualization.info)
