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Former BT Chief Business Services Strategist Murray Cooke Joins Tail-f Advisory Board
| Source: Tail-f Systems
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN--(Marketwire - February 26, 2009) - Tail-f Systems, the leading developer of
on-device configuration management software for networking equipment and
software providers, today announced that Murray Cooke has joined the
company's Advisory Board. Cooke, who recently served as Chief Business
Services Strategist at British Telecom, is widely recognized for his
telecommunications expertise; he will assist Tail-f in its vision to
reshape the configuration management arena, which remains one of
telecommunications' largest unaddressed areas of costs and errors.
"Despite the telecom industry's accelerated modernization over the last
decade, network configuration challenges remain a major source of system
errors and failures," said Hakan Millroth, CEO, Tail-f Systems. "As we work
to deploy standards-based configuration management solutions, Murray's vast
field experience and reputation will help us not only advance our product
development, but also communicate the critical importance of
standards-based network management solutions to the industry. We are
honored to have him on board as he will help our customers, our management
team and our industry move beyond the operational challenges of
next-generation network devices."
"Having followed Tail-f's growth over the last few years, and having most
recently worked with the Tail-f team in standardization projects, I believe
the company has created a key technology for addressing the operational
issues that continue to plague service providers," said Murray Cooke. "Not
only are Tail-f's solutions ripe for some of telecom's biggest areas of
difficulty, but the Tail-f management team is committed to working with
partners, vendors and operators to create industry standards that will
guide network configuration management long into the future."
About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of configuration management
software for network equipment vendors. Customers using Tail-f's technology
radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade
implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is a
venture-funded company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more
information, please visit www.tail-f.com.
About Murray Cooke
Murray Cooke most recently served as Chief Business Services Strategist for
British Telecom, responsible for the evolution of BT's services for
corporate and enterprise customers, including their migration to BT's 21st
Century Network platform. Prior to joining BT Group Chief Technology
Office, Mr. Cooke was the head of operational engineering in BT's Global
Solutions division, running UK banking, retail, and governmental networks.
He has also held a number of strategy and business development roles and is
a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.