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Former Dell EMC exec Lyons given operational oversight of Park Place Tech’s predictive, remote monitoring service solution

September 17, 2019

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Kathie Lyons

Park Place Technologies, a global provider of third-party maintenance for data centre hardware, has announced Kathie Lyons has joined the company as executive vice president and general manager of ParkView, filling a new role overseeing the company’s rapidly growing strategic business unit that is focused on data centre software and hosted automated monitoring services.

As GM for ParkView, Kathie will be responsible for building and executing on the ParkView roadmap, which includes innovating beyond hardware monitoring to deliver an all encompassing Data Centre monitoring service via a single pane of glass.

Lyons brings over 25 years of experience in operational leadership, customer-centric execution, and implementing enterprise systems worldwide. During her time as vice president of Enterprise Programs and National Security at EMC, she led the performance optimisation of global programs and systems, R&D configuration, and national security compliance, policy and processes.

“Kathie joins Park Place during an exciting phase of company-wide growth and brings a wealth of experience and technical acumen,” said Chris Adams, president and CEO of Park Place Technologies. “Kathie’s new role was created as we continue to invest in the development of Parkview. Kathie will be instrumental in ushering ParkView into its next phase of innovation as it continues to be a value driver for our business.”

“I am thrilled to join a team that embodies a constant commitment to evolution,” said Lyons, newly appointed executive vice president and general manager of ParkView, Park Place Technologies. “Park Place is truly pioneering a new industry standard in customer response with ParkView. I look forward to leading the team in helping global customers reach unprecedented levels of continuous uptime.”

ParkView is a secure, hosted monitoring service that proactively identifies component failures and probable cause across a single pane of glass. ParkView delivers an automated service for customers with near-term plans to extend beyond the hardware layer into software to include both operating systems and virtual servers. Since launching in 2018, more than 1,000 customers globally have benefitted from the automated ticket creation and reduced downtime the platform provides.

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