Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, recently announced that it has recruited two executives for newly created positions in its Toronto-based Canadian operations. Nickolas Kabits is and Tony Young will serve as sales manager and sales engineer, respectively.

In 2009, the Silicon Valley-based company saw double-digit growth in adoption of its industry-leading data virtualization middleware. In Canada specifically, the company reports particularly strong demand from Global 1000 enterprises in the financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical and energy industries.

“Canada is home to many of the world’s information-intensive industries, including four of the top 20 global money center banks as well as telecom providers, and resource and energy companies,”notes Christian Nall, executive vice president,Worldwide Field Operations, Composite Software.  “Our middleware has earned its place as the industry’s most feature-rich solution enablingIT teams to quickly bring together disparate information systems, efficiently and effectively, for better business intelligence and decision-making.” 

Data virtualization adoption is taking a range of forms, including data federation for individual projects, data warehouse extensions for wider reporting use cases, enterprise data sharing for multiple applications using a service-oriented approach, and internal and external cloud data integration.  The Composite Information Server™ 5.1 provides industry-leading data virtualization capabilities such as the ability to access data in various formats, abstract data complexity, federate data from disparate sources and deliver the data on demand in the format that is required by the consuming application.

Toronto native Nickolas Kabitsis joins Composite Software from ExaGrid Systems, where he recently served as sales and business development manager. Prior to that, Kabitsis was with Pillar Data Systems, as sales manager for Canada,and Storage Tek Canada(bought by Sun Microsystems), where he was the Ontario sales manager for Growth Markets. Kabitsis began his sales career with Bel lCanada.

Also a Toronto native, Tony Young most recently held a consulting position at Camilion Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of insurance product development solutions, including specialization in service oriented architecture (SOA) solutions. Previously, Young held a similar consulting and client management role with Infor Global Solutions' HCM Workforce Management product, specializing in Cognos report development, SQL scripting and custom java solutions.  Young's mix of technical expertise and client care has prepared him well for the Sales Engineering role at Composite Software. 

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