rPath Brings Scott Dietzen to Board of Directors

RALEIGH, N.C. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that Scott Dietzen has joined the rPath board of directors. Dietzen was formerly SVP of applications for Yahoo!, president and CTO of Zimbra, and CTO of BEA Systems. An acclaimed technology architect, advocate and entrepreneur, Dietzen brings his catalyzing influence to the rPath mission to reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise application delivery across traditional, virtual and cloud-based environments. A Q&A with Scott Dietzen is available here: http://bit.ly/3Fm82J.

“Scott was one of the guys behind the web app server, which ushered in a distributed computing revolution,” said Mike Torto, president and CEO of rPath. “Virtualization and cloud computing are driving another revolution that places the application at the center of the IT universe. Increasingly, organizations must automate the packaging, deployment and maintenance of applications as complete, self-contained and self-describing systems. Scott’s involvement validates our vision and invigorates our efforts. He gets what we’re doing, and he understands the important impact it will have on IT operations.”

Dietzen said, “I believe rPath’s approach to release automation will dramatically improve the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining applications. Today, the state of the practice in release automation is often unintelligent scripts that fail to understand the underlying system dependencies. As a result, when systems change — which they’re doing at an accelerating pace — applications break. When applications break, IT struggles to diagnose and troubleshoot the conflicts. These traditional approaches attempt to automate fundamentally broken processes. rPath improves the processes altogether with a deep and detailed system model that enables policy-driven automation and complete control over the system lifecycle.”

Dietzen emerged as a thought leader at WebLogic/BEA Systems, where he served as CTO. During this period, he is credited with helping to put together the J2EE standard, launching the web application server category, launching the Java Community Process, and driving the web services collaboration with Microsoft and IBM. Dietzen came to BEA in 1998 via the acquisition of WebLogic, a pioneer in Java and web application technology.

Until recently, Dietzen served as the senior vice president, applications at Yahoo!, where he helped to look after Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra. He joined Yahoo! with the acquisition of Web 2.0 and open source e-mail startup Zimbra, where he was president and CTO.

Dietzen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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rPath automates application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath’s innovative release automation platform is based on the industry’s only commercial version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective automation solution for rapid, low-risk and low-overhead deployment and maintenance of complex applications. rPath dramatically improves responsiveness to business lines, reduces compliance risks, and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to significantly reduce operating costs and “do more with less.” Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, rPath has 70+ customers including some of the world’s largest enterprises and ISVs. Visit www.rpath.com.

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