Xtium, Inc. announced its expanding partnership with YASH Technologies, Inc. For over three years, Xtium and YASH have partnered to offer hosted SAP environments. With more organizations moving applications to the cloud, YASH is able to leverage the partnership to offer its customers an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution that enables the SAP applications suite to be highly available, secure and scalable.

Xtium, Inc. announced the appointment of Tim Buckley, as chief executive officer and board member. Buckley spent five years at Red Hat, Inc., where he served as chief operating officer. Earlier in his career, Buckley ran worldwide sales for Visio Corporation. Buckley helped launch other successful start-ups, including Aldus Corporation; Approach Software; and Decision Resources. He was an advisor to MySQL and served on the board of SmartPath. Buckley currently serves on the boards of SciQuest, Inc., ChannelAdvisor and rPath.