Michael Capellas
Well-known channel and IT executives have a way of returning to the fold, even after lengthy absences, and that's precisely what happened with Michael Capellas, the former HP president and Compaq CEO, who was named head of Acadia in May. Capellas' post at Acadia, the joint cloud computing venture between Cisco and EMC, also puts him in charge of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, which includes Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel. With Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) data center play gaining ground -- and the competition for data center dollars ever more cutthroat -- Capellas efforts should be even more closely observed this year.
Next Slide >
