Tegile Systems,
the leading provider of flash-driven storage arrays for databases,
virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today announced
that storage, virtualization and data management veteran Narayan Venkat has joined the company as its chief marketing officer.
Venkat has more
than 20 years of marketing and product management experience at
companies across the enterprise technology industry. He joins Tegile
from Violin Memory, where he served as vice president of products and
marketing, helping the company position flash storage as the most
disruptive data center technology since virtualization. Prior to
Violin, he was vice president of the cloud infrastructure business unit
at VMware, where he successfully ran product management and marketing
for several of the company's next-generation storage and data management
initiatives in vSphere.
According
to Venkat, "The enterprise storage market is undergoing a major
transformation driven by the incorporation of flash technologies for
data storage. With its comprehensive portfolio of flash storage
systems, Tegile is well positioned to accelerate this transformation by
enabling enterprise customers to cost effectively leverage flash to
optimize their data centers and improve their end user experiences. I am
excited to join the Tegile team and I look forward to helping the
company continue to be a driving force in the data storage industry."
"Narayan
not only has extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of
virtualization and flash storage technologies but he has a real passion
for them as well," said Rohit Kshetrapal,
CEO of Tegile. "I believe that these are attributes shared by all of us
here at Tegile and what sets us apart for the competition. We are
driven to provide users with a new generation of flash-driven enterprise
storage systems that balance performance, capacity, features and price
for a variety of business applications. I look forward to Narayan's
help in further delivering that message."
Venkat has an MBA with a focus on marketing and finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and an MS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.