In addition to the formation of the board and management team, employees are being hired, Elias said. Acadia will employ 130 and begin operations in early Q1.

The venture is not only looking for “the best and brightest” from the parent companies but also recruiting from across the industry, Elias said.

Elias said Acadia’s opportunity is “substantial and unique” – enabling existing channel partners to easily and broadly implement private cloud computing infrastructure to increase their own opportunities.

“We’re offering this intellectual property that Acadia is creating to our partner ecosystem so that they can then deliver and help accelerate the adoption of those VBlock packages by our customers,” he said.

He says the company’s challenge is to meet high expectations.