Vizioncore hires away respected Xen community member Roger Baskerville to lead its EMEA push Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen several executive movements take place in the virtualization market. One interesting move made a week ago was from virtualization management vendor Vizioncore.Vizioncore announced the appointment of Roger Baskerville as its vice president of EMEA. Why is that interesting? Baskerville, a well-known figure in the Xen community, came over from Citrix Systems where he was the regional director of server virtualization, and before that was director of EMEA channels at XenSource. “Roger joins Vizioncore with a long history of success in the industry and particularly strong knowledge and understanding of the virtualization space. He is well known in the EMEA market and, along with the investment we are making in our new inside sales team, will take our EMEA operations to the next level,” said Chris Akerberg, president and chief operating officer at Vizioncore. Vizioncore is a long-time partner with VMware. But as VMware continues to compete within its own ecosystem, third-party software vendors may continue to invest in more heterogeneous virtualization platforms. Vizioncore renamed its product portfolio from the VMware branded moniker of “esx” (i.e. esxRanger) to a more generic virtualization naming convention of simply starting the product name with “v” rather than “esx” (which VMware has recently started using as well with their own products announced at VMworld 2008).So if Vizioncore is planning to open up its product line to the Xen community, Baskerville will prove to be an even larger asset to the company in the EMEA market. Software Development