{"id":38340,"date":"2011-06-25T18:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2011\/06\/25\/simon-crosby-citrix-cto-towards-a-new-adventure\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:09:55","slug":"simon-crosby-citrix-cto-towards-a-new-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2011\/06\/25\/simon-crosby-citrix-cto-towards-a-new-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Crosby: Citrix CTO, towards a new adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:it--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/simon-crosby\/0\/84\/b60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Crosby<\/a>, CTO of Citrix Data Center and Cloud division, announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citrix.com\/2011\/06\/22\/toward-trusted-infrastructure-for-the-cloud-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Citrix blog<\/a> that he wants to leave the company to start a new professional adventure in a Cloud startup focused on virtualization and security, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bromium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Crosby co-founder of XenSource, acquired 4 years ago by Citrix, together with Ian Pratt join Gaurav Banga (creator of Phoenix <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vmengine.net\/2008\/09\/30\/phoenix-idea-di-brevetto-sfuggita-hypercore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyperspace<\/a>), to found Bromium.<\/p>\n<p>Bromium has already acquired 3 investors, <a href=\"http:\/\/a16z.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreessen Horowitz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitionpartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ignition Partners<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedvp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lightspeed Venture Partners<\/a>. The board, in addition to having people from the Venture Capital mentioned, will also be composed of George Kurtz, Worldwide CTO, EVP of McAfee.<\/p>\n<p>The investment received is valued at $9.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Simon and Ian declare that they do not abandon the support and promotion of open projects: xen.org, OpenStack.org, OpenVSwitch.org, Open Networking Foundation and others.<\/p>\n<p>Many personal wishes to Simon, known since the time of XenSource, and with whom we exchanged occasional and instructive communications.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Data Center and Cloud division, announced on the Citrix blog that he wants to leave the company to start a new professional adventure in a Cloud startup focused on virtualization and security, Bromium. Simon Crosby co-founder of XenSource, acquired 4 years ago by Citrix, together with Ian Pratt join Gaurav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[2107,247,134,4986,2108,2109,131,2110,545,2111],"class_list":["post-38340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","tag-bromium-en","tag-citrix-en","tag-cloud-computing-en","tag-management-2-2","tag-org-en","tag-simon-crosby-en","tag-stories-en","tag-technologybiz-en","tag-xen-en","tag-xensource-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/simoncrosby_formal_22543-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41051,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340\/revisions\/41051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}