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Enterprise Management Innovator Joins
Univa UD Board of Directors
BMC CTO Tom Bishop Expands Leadership for Univa
UD Board of Directors
Lisle, IL, July 21, 2008 — Univa UD, a leading provider of software products for HPC
systems management and data center environments, announced today that enterprise
management veteran, Tom Bishop, Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software will join
Univa UD's Board of Directors.
Bishop joined BMC, a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions, in 2005
from VIEO, Inc., in Austin, Texas, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and was
named one of the Top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld in 2004. While at VIEO, Bishop pioneered the
architecture and design of an applications-focused, quality of service-oriented enterprise
systems management solution.
"With Tom's thought leadership and vision for the convergence of systems management,
virtualization, and the dynamic datacenter, Univa UD can become an even bigger force
within the marketplace. His network of technologists and professionals will help us build our
business," said Alex Brown, Vice President and General Manager of data center automation
for Univa UD.
For more than 20 years, Tom has served in senior technology and strategy roles at leading
organizations including UNIX International, Tandem Computers and CompuCare
Management Systems. Bishop was an early employee of Tivoli Systems and rose quickly
through the organization, serving first in key development roles before being named Chief
Technology Officer and General Manager for IBM Tivoli's Embedded Solutions business
unit.
A well-known technology innovator, Bishop holds nine patents in fault tolerant computing
and in leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management
Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX.
"We are excited to utilize Tom's knowledge to generat