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Vyatta CEO Named One of Network World's 50 Most Powerful People
Open Source Veteran Recognized for Disrupting Market Dominators
San Mateo, CA – 2007-01-02 05:00:00 – Vyatta announced today its CEO, Kelly Herrell, was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World magazine. Herrell was recognized along with other key industry players, including CEO Scott Kriens of Juniper and senior VP and chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo of Cisco.
Citing his history of achievements in both networking and open source companies, the authoritative publication placed Herrell in the list including leadership from the world's dominant network, computing and open source companies.
"It's an honor to lead the team at Vyatta," he said. "We are being recognized for the incredibly disruptive force we are delivering into a multi-billion dollar marketplace. Over the past year we proved that solutions based on open-source are a credible alternative to the closed-source products that dominate today's enterprise network landscape. We're thankful to those customers who shared our vision from the start and invested in us; while they are experiencing the benefits now, they are also showing the industry that there is a fresh world of value in networking products available to them today."
Decided by Network World editors, the "50 Most Powerful People" list recognizes the people and companies that are leading and improving the networking industry.
About Vyatta
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open-source, network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta. For more information, please visit http://www.vyatta.com.
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