Sphera Corporation, the leading global developer of Web hosting automation and management software, today announced it has expanded its worldwide sales and marketing teams in both the Americas and Europe in response to increased demand for the company's HostingBusiness Suite product family. Seasoned executives Scott Armour, Ian Osborne and Robin Hodus join Sphera.

Scott Armour, vice president of sales for the Americas, brings 18 years of experience to Sphera building strategic sales and channel business operations for mission critical enterprise software products. Prior to joining Sphera, Armour served as president of corporate software and vice president of enterprise software sales at IBM

Ian Osborne, vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East, and Asia (EMEA), brings 15 years of experience to Sphera building sales and marketing operations in the technology sector. Prior to joining Sphera, Osborne established and grew the European business for Versata, a leading provider of technology that automates the business logic processing for large enterprises.

"Their strong sales and operational focus is exactly what we need to leverage our successes to date and rapidly drive revenues and organizational growth in our global markets, " said Tamar Naor, chief executive officer of Sphera. "Robin Hodus, our new director of worldwide marketing, rounds out our executive team. Robin is charged with establishing a strong, unified, global market presence and position for Sphera. She will work in partnership with Ian and Scott to strengthen our industry leading position as the solution of choice for web hosting automation."

Armour notes, "We see growing demand among hosting providers, resellers and major carriers for our flagship HostingDirector software and our new ResellerDirector offering. It's rewarding to see the market respond positively to our modular software offering. Our clients use our software to reduce their operating costs and improve their account retention, which results in a significant benefit to their bottom line. Sphera has also invested in top-tier human resources to support our client's success. Expanding our sales and marketing team allows us to continue to be responsive to our customer's needs and fulfill our role as a trusted business advisor."

"There is tremendous demand for our high-end web hosting automation business platform throughout Europe," said Osborne. "To succeed in these challenging economic times, hosting providers need increased service flexibility and must offer more compelling value propositions. Sphera's HostingBusiness Suite enables providers to attract and retain more customers with differentiated, high value services. Sphera saw 100% growth in EMEA revenues in Q4 because our solution enables hosting providers and resellers to improve their profitability."

About Sphera
Sphera Corporation is a global leader in Web hosting automation and management software designed for improving hosting provider and reseller profitability. Today, more than 100 growth-oriented hosting providers, network providers and resellers around the world rely on Sphera's modular HostingBusiness Suite product family to address the web hosting needs of SMB customers. Designed around the value propositions of service differentiation, operational efficiencies and enhanced customer satisfaction, Sphera's best-in-class, enterprise-strength offering which includes HostingDirector and ResellerDirector, delivers immediate ROI by generating new revenue opportunities, slashing costs and winning customer loyalty. HostingBusiness Suite is the industry's most complete, flexible, out-of-the-box business platform for centralized, end-to-end management and administration of today's hybrid Linux and Windows hosting environments. Sphera is headquartered outside of Boston, with EMEA headquarters located in London.