RSA president leaving to take cloud job at parent EMC

RSA President Tom Heiser is transferring from the security company to its parent company EMC to focus on cloud computing initiatives, according to an internal communication sent from the company today.

The move marks the departure of a high-level executive from RSA and an increased focus by EMC on cloud computing initiatives.

In his new role, Heiser will focus on how EMC products can adapt to a cloud computing world, particularly in the IaaS and SaaS markets. EMC already has a number of other initiatives in the cloud computing market, including Pivotal, which is a spinout from EMC and VMware that focuses on cloud-based and virtualized big data applications. VMware, which EMC owns a substantial portion of, is competing heavily in the cloud computing market with plans to launch a public cloud option named vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service later this year. A