Condusiv Appoints Nick Tidd to Head Channel Efforts

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“I am excited to join [CEO] Jerry Baldwin and Condusiv Technologies in building upon a 30 year legacy in developing industry leading, high performance software”, said Tidd, in a statement.

Condusiv Technologies software optimizes and maintains application performance and efficiency and extends equipment longevity, according to the company.  You probably know the company better as Diskeeper, the defrag giant, but it changed its name just a few months ago in March to Condusiv, looking for a more modern branding in an increasingly virtualized world. The name change followed a change at the top in September 2011 when the company named Jerry Baldwin as CEO.

Looks like Baldwin is shaking things up at Condusiv, and hiring Nick Tidd is certainly a step in the right channel direction. Last time I spoke to Tidd was back when he was a strategic advisory board member over at BlueRoads, so it’s been a while, but I was very impressed by his channel smarts.

And Baldwin also has some early cloud and SaaS leadership experience at Acuity and which makes me wonder if the company may be contemplating a go-to-market strategy that includes managed service providers.