INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS
Cloudera appoints Koen van Erp to lead EMEA alliances and channels
Cloudera has appointed Koen van Erp to lead EMEA Alliances and Channels. 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 $ 100 million in annual recurring revenue. Most recently Van Erp served as COO of IronCloud, where he helped shape the company’ s go-to-market model for its AI-driven Security Operations as a Service platform.
In his new role, Van Erp will support Cloudera’ s EMEA sales organisation and lead the company’ s channel strategy across the region. He will focus on regional system integrators, especially those with a strong emphasis on Sovereign Cloud requirements as part of its strategy to execute globally with regional precision to meet local market needs, particularly in EMEA.
“ 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. We are handing our partners the keys to the most flexible architecture in the market. I look forward to supporting our partner ecosystem as they help customers turn the complexity of hybrid data and AI into a competitive advantage and
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realise the full value of Cloudera’ s Data Anywhere, Cloud Anywhere, and AI Anywhere capabilities.”
Cloudflare snaps up VoidZero
Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, the open source-first company behind the next-generation JavaScript tooling ecosystem Vite. The acquisition will unify VoidZero’ s high-performance tooling – including the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rust-based Rolldown bundler and Oxc toolchain – natively into the Cloudflare ecosystem. By merging Cloudflare’ s global edge network and Workers developer platform with the modern web’ s industry-standard toolchain,
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare
Evan You, founder and CEO of VoidZero
Cloudflare is creating a frictionless, one-click deployment stack from local code straight to Cloudflare’ s global network.
“ 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.“ Evan and his team built Vite from scratch with the same philosophy we used to build Cloudflare: strip out the bloat and make it fast. Bringing them on board gives millions of developers, and the AI agents working alongside them, the fastest path from local code to our global network.”
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.
“ Our mission at VoidZero has always been to eliminate the fragmentation and performance bottlenecks of the modern web stack,” said Evan You, founder and CEO of VoidZero.“ Cloudflare shares our obsession with speed and architectural purity. 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.” •
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