Appnomic Systems taps Ray Solnik as President

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Bangalore: Bangalore-based Appnomic Systems, a provider of Software and Software as a Service solutions for proactive, application-centric and autonomic management of IT infrastructure, named Ray Solnik as the company's president for their U.S. Operations. Led by D Padmanabhan, Appnomic's team is equipped with more than 100 years of experience and rich exposure to infrastructure and application management areas. The management team comprises of top executives from Infosys, Wipro, and Oracle Financial Services. The company provides advanced Application Performance Management and Data Center Operations Automation SaaS solutions that deliver improvements to enterprise IT service delivery and massive increases in MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of enterprise grade software applications. With marquee venture capital investor, Norwest Venture Partners, as its investor, Appnomic's is a private company with corporate headquarters in Bangalore. "Ray brings twenty years of deep technology experience in the cloud computing sector, managed networks services, and data communications," said Paddy Padmanhaban, CEO of Appnomic Systems Pvt Ltd. "With a proven track record of building early stage companies into sizeable and profitable enterprises, we look forward to his leadership for growing our business in North America." Solnik will focus on growing the company's software, SaaS, and manage services businesses by targeting and attracting North America based companies interested in leveraging the benefits of data center automation, application performance management and cloud computing technologies. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Appnomic uses patent pending proprietary systems, approaches, and technologies for proactively managing enterprise software application performance and automating IT processes. The technologies and solutions developed by the company have been commercially proven with enterprise customers in India, the Middle East, and Africa. The company has now appointed Solnik to lead the charge across North America. In addition to new technology solutions, Appnomic combines completely new pricing constructs, business models, and low costs to the North America market for application performance management and data center automation solutions. Solnik added, "Appnomic Systems is at the forefront of heavily automated IT monitoring and operations solutions based on Application Behavior Learning (ABL) and IT Process Automation (ITPA) technologies. Appnomic delivers a completely new level of data center operations efficiency, compliance with enterprise operating policies, and application performance compared to options currently available -- including from market leaders like BMC, CA, and HP. I think Enterprise CIOs and IT operations professionals in North America will be eager to review Appnomic's solution for their business." Before joining Appnomic Systems, Solnik was president and CEO of Buena Vista Business services, a California consultancy that provides interim executive leadership and management consulting services to technology companies. Solnik has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.