{"id":15865,"date":"2015-07-13T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=229881"},"modified":"2015-07-13T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:42:56","slug":"canonical-appoints-ex-microsoft-uk-dev-lead-as-evp-of-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/canonical-appoints-ex-microsoft-uk-dev-lead-as-evp-of-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical appoints ex-Microsoft UK dev lead as EVP of cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_229891\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/07\/Anand-Krishnan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/07\/Anand-Krishnan.png\" alt=\"Krishnan will lead Canonical's cloud efforts\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krishnan will lead Canonical&#8217;s cloud efforts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canonical has appointed former Microsoft exec Anand Krishnan to the role of executive vice president for cloud, where he will lead most of the company\u2019s cloud-related efforts globally including business-development, marketing, engineering and customer delivery activities.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan most recently served as UK General Manager for Microsoft\u2019s Developer Platform division where he was responsible in part for scaling the Azure business, which by most measures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2014\/04\/25\/microsoft-fy13-results-bolstered-by-azure-office-365-growth\/\">seems to be growing at record pace<\/a>. Before joining Microsoft in 2004 he spent about five years at Trilogy, a Texas-based software firm specialising in lead generation solutions for the automotive, insurance and telecoms sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat businesses make an extraordinary difference to the customers they serve. Canonical has the products and the momentum to do exactly that,\u201d Krishnan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to be joining the team at this time and helping shape the next phase of our journey\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canonical has in recent months moved to bolster its cloud strategy with BootSack, its managed private cloud offering, and its own distribution of OpenStack. Its Linux distro Ubuntu <a href=\"http:\/\/thecloudmarket.com\/stats#\/by_platform_definition\">is the most popular OS in use on AWS EC2<\/a> (though other Linux incumbents have questioned those claims), and it also recently launched Ubuntu Core, a slimmed-down, re-architected version of the Ubuntu operating system that borrows from heavily from the Linux container (isolated frameworks) and mobile (transactional updates) worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical has appointed former Microsoft exec Anand Krishnan to the role of executive vice president for cloud, where he will lead most of the company&rsquo;s cloud-related efforts globally including business-development, marketing, engineering and customer delivery activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2962,2276,1095,1976,67,2963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anand-krishnan","category-appointment","category-canonical","category-news-analysis","category-openstack","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15866,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}