Nov 11, 2008 : Carpathia Hosting Names CTO

📅 November 11, 2008 - Web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting (carpathiahost.com) announced on Tuesday it has named Jon Greaves the company's chief technology officer.


In his new role, Greaves will be responsible for leading Carpathia's commitment to use technology to deliver innovative services and to ensure the delivery of repeatable and scalable solutions to Carpathia customers. He will also focus on continuing the evolution of the strategy and products and services portfolio at Carpathia.

Carpathia CTO Jon Greaves.

"We are excited about Jon joining our organization. Jon's leadership, vision and experience will allow us to continue to innovate and extend our industry-leading service delivery platform for managed services, virtualization and data center optimization services," says Peter Weber, CEO of Carpathia Hosting. "Jon will be a key member of the management team as we continue this exciting period of growth and expansion."

Greaves has had significant experience in managed services and operations with a particular emphasis on remote services delivery.

Before joining Carpathia Hosting, he was an engineer and served as CTO of Sun Microsystems' services business, where he created the services innovation office whose focus is to further services research by collaboration with academia, industry and government.

He was also responsible for Sun's network services vision and strategy, enabling a suite of remotely delivered services provided by Sun and its partners.

In addition to serving in positions at British Telecom, MCI and Concert, Greaves worked at SevenSpace where he led the architecture and development of the company's remote management and delivery platform.

He is considered an expert on systems security and privacy, playing a strategic role in representing the telecommunications industry in developing international standards in response to Critical Infrastructure Protection and US Presidential Decision Directive 62 and 63.

Also announced today, Greaves released an e-book entitled, Datacenter of the Future, where he provides insight into the future of data centers and the evolution of data center optimization services. The e-book will be published one chapter per month over the next eight months.

Interested participants can now register for the live "Datacenter of the Future" webcast on December 3.

Carpathia Hosting provides enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses.

In March, Carpathia successfully completed its "Green Machine" program, which provides efficient hosting solutions to customers that are demanding both high performance and environmental responsibility.