PLUMgrid Names Larry Lang as CEO

PLUMgrid, a start-up offering an Open Networking Suite (ONS) for clouds based on OpenStack, named Larry Lang as chief executive officer. Founder Awais Nemat has been appointed chairman of the board of directors.

Lang has held executive positions including president and CEO of Quorum Labs, vice president and general manager of the mobile internet business unit at Cisco Systems, and vice president of product management at Ipsilon Networks, now part of Nokia. His board service includes Violin Memory and previously BelAir Networks, now part of Ericsson.

"Enterprises and service providers are excited by the business transformation made possible by cloud data centers and software-defined networking," said Lang. "PLUMgrid's innovation in secure virtual networking is unmatched in providing customers the scalability and agility they require. It's a privilege to join the PLUMgrid team, and I look forward to leading the company and working with our customers and partners."

PLUMgrid is based in Sunnyvale, California.

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PLUMgrid's Open Networking Suite (ONS), which supports OpenStack distributions and network functions, is a software-based network virtualization platform designed for cloud operators and large-scale cloud environments.

Virtual network functions in ONS 2.0 include routing, switching with Private VLAN, security policies, NAT, and DHCP. In addition, ONS 2.0 is introducing tech previews for DNS as a service and end to end data encryption.

In addition, PLUMgrid is announcing support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (RHEL-OSP 5) with ONS 2.0.