UPDATED 15:43 EDT / MARCH 24 2016

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EMC and Goldman Sachs vets sell their cloud startup to collab giant Intralinks

Three years after leaving the corporate world to launch Verilume Inc., former EMC Corp. cloud boss Mike Feinberg and co-founder Dan Petrozzo are going back as part of the freshly announced sale of their startup to Intralinks Holdings Inc., a publicly-traded collaboration provider. The veteran executives and their team are bringing aboard valuable experience in automating large-scale data centers of the kind that their new employer operates.

Verilume has developed a management platform that provides the ability to quickly set up OpenStack and Hadoop behind the firewall. Whereas installing the frameworks manually often tends to take months, the startup says that its software can complete the process in minutes and without requiring any special knowledge of either technology. All an administrator has to do is select the infrastructure on which they wish to deploy their cluster, input how much hardware capacity they require and let the outfit’s automated installer take care of the rest.

After everything is set up, the environment and its users can be managed through a centralized console that also provides control over all the other Verilume-powered clusters in an organization. Intralinks believes that the functionality could go a long way towards easing the administration of the disparate data centers from which it delivers its collaboration service, particularly on the storage front. The vendor is looking to ensure that the business documents and other sensitive content organizations store in its platform are kept at a facility within their home jurisdiction that doesn’t pose any compliance issues.

Feinberg is taking over as Intralink’s new head of engineering to lead the effort, while Petrozzo is joining as vice president of support operations. The rest of the Verilume team is being absorbed into the collaboration giant’s development and product management units.

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