Conformity Names Tom Bishop as Chief Technology Officer

Leading Provider of Cloud Identity and Access Management Solutions Adds Recognized Technology Visionary to Management Team

AUSTIN, Texas – January 14, 2010 –- Conformity Inc., provider of the first enterprise-class management and governance solution for SaaS and cloud applications, today announced that software industry veteran Tom Bishop has been named chief technology officer (CTO). Tom is a recognized and award-winning CTO, and brings over 30 years of experience in senior technology and strategy roles at a variety of pioneering systems management solution vendors. As CTO, Tom will be responsible for the overall technology vision and strategy at Conformity. Roy Kipp, co-founder and former CTO has been named chief information officer, and will assume responsibility for internal operations, production deployment and overall deployment architecture.

Most recently, Tom was vice president of engineering for Storspeed, an Austin-based provider of application-aware caching appliances. Prior, he was vice president and chief technology officer at BMC Software, where he was responsible for product vision and direction, including advancing Atrium, the company’s innovative open-architected foundation for its Business Service Management solutions. Bishop has also served as CTO of VIEO Inc., where he was named “Chief Technology Officer of the Year” by InfoWorld magazine. Tom was also the former chief technology officer of IBM Tivoli, where he created and led Tivoli’s distributed systems management technology and products.

With more than twenty-five years of industry experience, he is well known as a technology innovator, holding nine patents in fault-tolerant computing, and leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the CMDB federation specification, and POSIX. As chief technology officer of VIEO Inc., Bishop pioneered the architecture and design of an applications-focused, quality of service-oriented enterprise management solution.

“SaaS and cloud-based applications are creating fundamentally new management and governance challenges for CIOs and enterprise IT,” said Tom Smith, CEO of Conformity. “The virtualization of IT resources requires a fundamental rethinking of identity and systems management solutions. With his experience and track record as a technology visionary that has helped define the systems management solutions space, we’re very excited to have Tom join our team. He will have a significant impact on helping Conformity, and the industry overall, define the next generation of IT management solutions.”

The Conformity solution provides customers a centralized point of management for all cloud applications and users, enabling them to reduce the security and compliance risks and operational costs associated with on-demand applications. The Conformity solution is designed to arm enterprises with the same level of visibility and control over on-demand applications as they’ve come to expect with traditional packaged apps, and includes user provisioning, role management, workflow approvals, directory integration, compliance reporting, usage analytics and change management capabilities.

About Conformity
Conformity is the provider of the first enterprise-class management and governance platform for cloud applications. Conformity enables organizations to centrally manage on-demand applications, users and data, reducing security and compliance risks and operational costs associated with SaaS and cloud applications. Conformity was named a “Top 10 IT Management Start-Up to Watch” by Network World. For more information about Conformity, please visit www.conformity-inc.com or call 512-682-8200.