Networking Industry Leader Karl Soderlund Joins Certeon
10 May, 2010 - Soderlund to head Sales and Business Development
BURLINGTON, Mass. — May 10, 2010 — Certeon, the leading provider of virtualized WAN
optimization and application acceleration, today announced that Karl Soderlund has joined the
company as its senior vice president responsible for Certeon’s worldwide sales and business
development organizations. Soderlund brings more than 15 years of experience in building and
managing highly successful sales and business development organizations in the networking
industry.
Prior to coming to Certeon, Soderlund was the vice president and general manager for sales
and marketing in the Americas of Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve business. He also was the senior
vice president of American sales and global alliances at Fortinet, a computer and network
security firm where he was instrumental in driving its successful IPO. Soderlund also has held
senior management positions with Extreme Networks and Cisco Systems, where his leadership
drove substantial growth in both companies.
“Certeon is seeing a tremendous growth in its global channels as well as strong direct interest
from large enterprise customers,” stated Peter Dougherty, Certeon’s president and CEO. “Karl
Soderlund brings in-depth network industry sales and business development experience to help
us take our company to a whole new level of sales efficiency.”
Certeon has multiple worldwide channel partners and recently announced a partnership with
ANXebusiness. Certeon also recently announced major enterprise wins with Medina
Consultants and with Boots & Coots, which was recently acquired by Halliburton.
Certeon’s aCelera software products are the perfect union of virtualization, WAN optimization
and application acceleration technologies, providing enterprises and hosting providers with
performance, scalability and ease of management. aCelera is hypervisor-agnostic and delivers
performance benefits to mission-critical applications and business continuity environments,
improving network bandwidth optimization and performance by up to 95 percent. When
compared to proprietary hardware appliances, aCelera software saves IT departments up to 60
percent in network optimization capital and operation costs.
About Certeon
Certeon is the leader in virtualized WAN optimization. Certeon’s aCelera software is the first
WAN optimization and application acceleration virtual appliance to deliver acceleration,
scalability and manageability. aCelera software reduces application response time over the
WAN and lowers network bandwidth requirements by up to 95 percent without proprietary
hardware appliances. The aCelera family of software-based solutions includes aCelera virtual
appliance, aCelera Client for optimized desktop-to-data-center performance and aCelera Sync
for efficient business continuity over the WAN. aCelera performance scales linearly as more
resources (i.e., CPU, memory and disk) are added and supports up to 50 percent more
concurrent accelerated connections than do “closed” proprietary hardware appliances.
Enterprises and managed service providers can save as much as 60 percent in total cost of
ownership when deploying aCelera software to virtualized data centers, cloud environments or
remote offices. For more information, visit www.certeon.com.
©2010 Certeon Inc. Certeon is a registered trademark and aCelera is a trademark of
Certeon Inc. All other company names and/or product names are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Brian Schwartz
Certeon
781-591-0001
bschwartz@certeon.com
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