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Alex Thurber, CRO of Virtana, has joined the DEVOPSdigest Vendor Forum.

Thurber is responsible for Global Customer Success at Virtana, including professional services, strategic support, and technical support teams. Thurber has an extensive background in customer-facing and channel strategy roles in software companies transforming to SaaS. Before Virtana, he was Chief Revenue Officer of Pulse Secure, a SaaS-based secure access software company. Before Pulse, he was SVP and GM of the Mobility Solutions business unit for BlackBerry, Ltd. Prior to BlackBerry, he held executive channel strategy and field operations roles at WatchGuard, Tripwire, and McAfee. Thurber also spent 10 years at Cisco leading channel strategy for advanced technologies, where he co-developed the new rebate-based channel profitability program (VIP program), which is still in effect more than a decade later. Thurber has a BA in International Relations from Knox College.

Virtana delivers a unified observability and optimization platform for managing application workloads across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Using artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) technologies, including machine learning and advanced data analytics, the cloud-agnostic Virtana Platform solves the most difficult challenges facing enterprises as they seek to leverage public clouds. The SaaS platform enables a “know before you go” approach by providing intelligent observability into which workloads to migrate. It also ensures that unexpected costs and performance degradation are avoided once workloads are operating in the cloud. With the Virtana Platform, enterprises can confidently speed cloud adoption and reduce cloud operating costs by simplifying management of their IT environments.