INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS
Cloudera appointment to lead EMEA Alliances and Channels
Cloudera has appointed Koen van Erp to lead EMEA Alliances and Channels as the company continues to expand its ecosystem-led growth strategy across the region.
Van Erp joins Cloudera with more than 15 years of experience building partner ecosystems and commercial teams across global technology companies and fast-growing start-ups. He spent 12 years at Google, where he scaled the EMEA partner sales organisation for Google Cloud Security to more than US $ 100 million in annual recurring revenue. Most recently, he served as COO of IronCloud, helping shape the company’ s AI-driven Security Operations-as-a- Service platform.
Van Erp will support Cloudera’ s EMEA sales organisation and lead the company’ s regional channel strategy, with a focus on system integrators and Sovereign Cloud requirements. He will also work to deepen strategic partnerships with AWS, Nvidia, Dell Technologies, AMD and IBM.
“ Strong ecosystems are not built by simply adding more partners,” said Koen van Erp, EMEA Alliances and Channels Leader at Cloudera.“ They are built by focusing on the right relationships, understanding what partners need to grow and creating the conditions for them to invest back into customers.”
“ Koen’ s experience building high-performing channel teams will be instrumental as we execute our strategic vision to make our worldclass partner ecosystem the primary accelerator for Cloudera’ s growth
Koen van Erp
and customer success,” said Michelle Hoover, SVP, Alliances and Channels, Cloudera.
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero to build the future of the AI-native web
Cloudflare, a leading connectivity cloud company, has announced that it has acquired VoidZero, the open-source-first company behind the next-generation JavaScript tooling ecosystem, Vite. The acquisition will integrate VoidZero’ s tooling – including the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rolldown bundler and Oxc toolchain – into the Cloudflare ecosystem, creating a streamlined deployment experience from local development to Cloudflare’ s global network.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare
Evan You, founder and CEO of VoidZero
VoidZero’ s toolchain, anchored by Vite, has become a key part of the modern web ecosystem, reaching more than 130 million weekly downloads. The Cloudflare Vite plugin has reached 13.9 million weekly downloads, demonstrating strong developer adoption of the combined stack for AI-powered application development.
“ The best engineers I know are shipping more code than ever and writing less of it by hand. AI is doing more of the typing, so everything around it has to keep up,” said Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
VoidZero’ s team of open-source creators and Rust optimisation specialists, led by widely recognised Vue. js and Vite Creator Evan You, will join Cloudflare’ s Emerging Technology and Incubation( ETI) organisation. The team will continue to advance VoidZero’ s opensource roadmap while accelerating deep integration with the Cloudflare Workers developer platform.
“ Joining forces allows us to keep the Vite ecosystem neutral, open and vendor-agnostic, while giving us the resources and global infrastructure to supercharge the developer experience for millions of engineers worldwide,” said Evan You, Founder and CEO of VoidZero. •
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