EUROPE
UK WINNER:
Jim Darragh Abiquo
A Company Profile:
biquo delivers the industry’s most advanced Enterprise Cloud software solution, allowing customers to rapidly build and
manage a fully automated and governed, self-service, private, public or hybrid cloud from globally deployed resources.
Abiquo’s award-winning software has been developed for both Service Providers and Enterprise who are building, managing and delivering cloud based IT services. The Abiquo Cloud management platform provides technology independence, control and automation.
The company understands current IT challenges facing the business and addresses issues such as: - Lack of Visibility - Loss of Control - Increased Costs - Limited Automation
Addressing these issues through the Abiquo solution, which is administered through a comprehensive set of management capabilities in a single, integrated software package that can be quickly and easily implemented around existing infrastructure, resulting in unrivalled time-to-value and revenue.
Designed to integrate with the widest range of virtualisation technologies in the industry, no other cloud management platform integrates with as many third party technologies.
By doing so, Abiquo ensures; - No customer is locked into a specific third party vendor
- Flexibility to compare, integrate and migrate between different solutions and partners - Customers can future proof investments.
Under the leadership of CEO Jim Darragh since September 2012, the company has gone from strength to strength; securing additional rounds of funding with existing investors Balderton and Nauta, whilst adding specialist growth capital
investor Oxford Capital to its list of investors. With the guidance of Darragh, Oxford Capital has led a US$5 million funding round into Abiquo to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its award-winning technology, generate global sales and increase worldwide marketing activity.
Prior to joining Abiquo, Darragh held the position of SVP & General Manager of the Stingray business unit at Riverbed Technology, a role he began following his influential leadership as CEO at Zeus Technology. Darragh was instrumental in the acquisition of Zeus by Riverbed in 2011, spearheading an award-winning exit that attracted considerable attention in the European equity markets. The valuation of Zeus reflected Darragh’s impact in delivering strong revenue growth, robust product and go-to- market competitiveness.
With a long history of building successful international software businesses across the industry at SAP, CA Technologies and BMC Software, Darragh has executed an ambitious strategy at Abiquo.
Bernard Liautaud, Partner at Balderton Capital and Abiquo board member, describes; “Jim is a strong leader with deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in the software market. We have great confidence in his ability to fulfill Abiquo's potential in this fast growth market and we fully support his global strategy."
Viewed as a thought leader within the Cloud industry, Darragh is often asked to comment on issues within the Cloud, such as preventing vendor lock-in, effectively migrating to the Cloud and creating an operational Cloud strategy for businesses.
As a result Abiquo have become members of the Cloud Industry Forum, heading up a special interest group focusing on Operational Management within the Cloud.
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Supported by a handpicked world-class management team, Darragh has been able to successfully expand the Abiquo customer list, which include major multinational companies from a range of industries, as well as cloud infrastructure providers who use Abiquo to enhance the services they offer to their clients.
In doing so, Abiquo and its customers alike have won many awards across the board – more recently Abiquo has won the Red Herring Top 100 Europe award which has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs. Abiquo has also been named as ‘Value Leader’ by analyst group Enterprise Management Associates in their research into Private Cloud platforms, specifically highlighting Abiquo’s approach, “which is radically aimed at helping customers leverage their existing investments” through “a cloud platform that coherently, consistently, and securely ties together existing enterprise technologies.”
Through Darragh’s management, Abiquo is frequently mentioned by various analyst groups such as Gartner, Forrester, and the 451 Group, with the Abiquo software specifically commended for its “appeal to users looking for hypervisor-agnostic, multitenant cloud infrastructure management with delegated administration to manage data center and hosted resources to create and manage private, public and hybrid clouds.” – Gartner
Contact: Abiquo
Lily Hill House, Lily Hill Road
Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1344 206955 Tel: +1 650 632 4420
Email:
marketing@abiquo.com Website:
www.abiquo.com
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