Red Hat announces Radhesh Balakrishnan as new head of Virtualization

Red Hat has announced that it has appointed Radhesh Balakrishnan as new head of its virtualization technologies and solutions.

Radhesh Balakrishnan, previously of Microsoft, will serve as the global leader of Red Hat's virtualization infrastructure solutions, including responsibilities for the company's Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization technologies and solutions.

Balakrishnan joins Red Hat from Microsoft, where he held product management and product marketing responsibilities across a wide range of product lines. Most recently Balakrishnan served as a senior director responsible for the Windows Azure cloud platform business in the Asia

Pacific region.

Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat said "Radhesh and his team will continue to drive open virtualization forward through our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack technologies and solutions - both of which are central to Red Hat's open hybrid approach to the cloud."

Radhesh Balakrishnan, global leader, Virtualization, Red Hat said "Red Hat's leadership in open source, KVM and OpenStack are assets key to delivering cost-effective virtualization and IaaS solutions to enterprise customers as well as cloud service providers. I am excited to join Red Hat to lead the efforts to help deliver on its promise of open hybrid cloud."