INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS
Cohesity appoints Seb Fitzjohn to lead European channel strategy
Cohesity has appointed Seb Fitzjohn as Vice President, Partner Channel Sales and GTM, Europe, where he will lead the company’ s partner and channel strategy across the region.
Reporting to Olivier Savornin, Group Vice President of Sales, Europe, Fitzjohn will oversee the development of Cohesity’ s Aspire Partner Programme and work with partners to expand the company’ s go-tomarket activities across European markets.
The appointment forms part of Cohesity’ s continued investment in its European partner ecosystem as organisations increase their focus on data resilience, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.
Fitzjohn joins Cohesity after seven years at ServiceNow, where he served as Vice President of the EMEA partner organisation before becoming Group Vice President of Sales for Northern Europe. His appointment follows the strategic partnership between Cohesity and ServiceNow to support enterprise Artificial Intelligence resilience and recovery.
“ As AI adoption accelerates, organisations need absolute confidence that they can protect, secure, recover and unlock greater value from their data,” said Seb Fitzjohn.“ Cohesity and our partners are uniquely positioned to help customers build true data resilience while also enabling AI-driven business insights. I look forward to working closely with our partners and the Cohesity team to expand our sales and delivery capacity across Europe in service to our joint customers.”
Seb Fitzjohn
Infoblox to acquire network observability company Kentik
Infoblox has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire network observability
Scott Harrell, Chief Executive Officer, Infoblox company Kentik in a move intended to expand its network visibility and Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Infoblox said the acquisition will combine its DNS, DHCP, IP address management( DDI) and network identity services with Kentik’ s network intelligence and observability platform. The combined offering is intended to provide customers with broader visibility across networks, applications and hybrid and multi-cloud environments while supporting AI-driven operations.
“ Infoblox sits at a unique intersection. Every device, application and cloud workload on a customer’ s network runs through our technology, generating unparalleled context. With Kentik, we expand and enrich that context, allowing us to provide networking, cloud and security teams the real-time hybrid cloud intelligence they need to act with confidence,” said Scott Harrell, Chief Executive Officer, Infoblox.
“ Our customers need robust data and insights for their agentic operations so they can provide the increasing levels of resiliency, performance and security their businesses demand. Together with Kentik, we’ re able to deliver that.”
Kentik provides network intelligence and observability by analysing flow data, routing information, cloud logs, synthetic testing and device telemetry across data centres, cloud environments, WANs and the public Internet. Infoblox said combining this data with its DNS and network identity capabilities is intended to give organisations a more complete view of network activity and support troubleshooting and security investigations.
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