EMC Corporation today announced Chad Sakac (@sakacc) has been appointed President, VCE effective immediately. Reporting to David Goulden,
CEO, EMC Information Infrastructure, Sakac will be responsible for
continued innovation of VCE converged infrastructure and solutions to
meet customers' evolving data center requirements. Sakac, a veteran EMC
leader, has been a leading advocate for converged platforms and
solutions in the market. He succeeds Praveen Akkiraju
who, since taking over VCE in 2012, has played a critical role in
growing VCE into a business that exits FY15 on an even higher run rate
than the $2 billion+ we previously disclosed. Akkiraju will continue to
work for David Goulden in an advisory role.
Sakac has run EMC Global Systems
Engineering for three years and will continue to lead this team,
maximizing synergies between Global Systems Engineering and VCE.
VCE, which became an EMC business in December 2014,
will now become the EMC Converged Platforms Division. As part of this
new model, VCE is poised to fully leverage EMC in helping customers
implement their IT transformation plans. Tighter alignment within EMC
will further simplify technology options and deployment, and provide an
even richer customer experience at enterprise scale to drive business
competitiveness. With a broad portfolio of converged and hyper-converged
offerings, EMC customers can confidently simplify operations and shift
resources to increase focus on innovation and business agility.
"Under Praveen Akkiraju's
leadership VCE became the clear converged infrastructure leader with VCE
Vblock Systems that were born from our strong partnership with Cisco,
and he successfully expanded VCE's portfolio to accelerate customer
adoption of hybrid cloud," said Goulden. "Going forward, having the VCE
team more deeply integrated within EMC allows us to leverage synergies,
simplify our go-to-market and improve time to market for our customers.
EMC has never been better positioned to capture the huge opportunity
that exists for converged infrastructure and solutions, and I am
confident that Chad's passion and industry knowledge will enable us to
achieve success."
"In the past year, VCE has evolved
from having a single product to having one of the industry's broadest
portfolios of converged infrastructure and solutions with Blocks, Racks
and Appliances," said Sakac. "I am ecstatic to lead a team that has an
incredible track record for success and is laser focused on developing
innovative technologies that our customers care about. Converged and
Hyper-Converged infrastructure form fundamental, foundational platforms
on which Hybrid Clouds, Cloud Native Applications and Data Lake
Analytics are built."