Scality announced that it has created the new role of Field CTO
to help customers and prospects navigate the challenges of managing
information at petabyte-to-exabyte scale, and brought on Greg DiFraia, a
storage industry veteran and acknowledged expert, to fill the important
role.
"Having the right people and skill sets is the key to success in
today's tech industry, especially in the fast-emerging world of
multi-cloud data management," said Giorgio Regni, Scality CTO. "We are
incredibly excited to have Greg on board in this new role, where he will
apply his depth and breadth of technical and strategic expertise with
his exceptional communication skills to bring value to our customers and
community."
Previously with Dell EMC, most recently in the role of CTO, Elastic
Cloud Storage (ECS), DiFraia led the global sales strategy for the ECS
software-defined storage platform. As VP of Strategic Alliances at
Turbonomic, a hybrid cloud workload automation developer, DiFraia has
had a front-row seat to see the emerging challenges of multi-cloud; his
experience has huge value in today's multi-cloud world.
"Customers today are under immense pressure to help drive down costs
while providing innovation and agility to support the goals of their
businesses via IT and Digital Transformation," said Greg DiFraia,
Scality's new Field CTO. "Scality's multi-cloud data management
technology is brilliant and will be a critical component in helping
customers achieve these complex goals. Between that and the solid
software-defined storage RING-and the accolades Scality is getting from
analysts-it was clear that it was time. I'm excited to get out there
and help customers and prospects work through solving the problems of
today while providing a path for innovation."
"We're leading the way as companies seek ways to make more from their
data," said Jerome Lecat, Scality's CEO. "Greg will be a huge asset,
helping those customers understand the challenges and pitfalls of the
solutions out there, to help speed their transitions to more
cost-effective software-defined storage, not only increasing and
accelerating their adoption of object storage, but also helping them see
new ways to leverage clouds and expand their multi-cloud IT."