WekaIO,
the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for
data intensive applications, today announced that seasoned storage
professional Suresh Vasudevan, the CEO of open source container vendor
Sysdig and former CEO of Nimble Storage, has joined its newly
established advisory board. Joining Vasudevan on the advisory board is
Bill Moore, former founder and CEO of rack-scale flash array startup
DSSD which was acquired by EMC in 2014, and Randy Seidl, founder of
Revenue Acceleration and formerly of EMC and Hewlett Packard.
The
appointment of seasoned executives who have led companies to high
growth will help accelerate WekaIO's ability to scale revenue and
customer acquisition. As CEO of Nimble Storage, from 2011-2017,
Vasudevan led the company from an early-stage startup through a
successful IPO, and to a customer-base some 10,000-strong coupled with
almost $500 million in annual revenue, before its acquisition by Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE). Prior to that Vasudevan was CEO of Omneon,
Inc., and before that spent nearly a decade at NetApp, where he held
various senior executive positions.
"We
are honored to have these tech leaders in data storage on our advisory
team," said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO of WekaIO. "WekaIO has been
on an explosive growth trajectory fueled by strategic partnerships and a
growing customer base that value our product's superiority as a
scale-out storage solution capable of meeting customer requirements for
performance, ease of use, and scalability."
"I
have aligned myself with WekaIO because I trust their vision and
believe that Matrix will be instrumental in changing the way storage is
provisioned in the datacenter," said Suresh Vasudevan. "The industry is
at a pivotal point where legacy file systems and storage appliances
can't support AI and deep learning workflows and the need for
NVMe-optimized filesystems is now."
Before
joining Walden International, a highly technical investment firm, Bill
Moore was the Founder and CEO at DSSD, acquired by EMC in 2014. After
acquisition Moore held the role of Senior Vice President and named as
one of four EMC Fellows. Prior to DSSD, Moore was a Distinguished
Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he co-led the development of the ZFS
filesystem and served as Chief Engineer for Storage. In addition to his
numerous accolades, Moore was the first employee at 3PARdata, acquired
by HPE, developing their platform software and key elements of their
flexible volume manager algorithms.
As
the CEO of Revenue Acceleration and Top Talent Recruiting, Randy Seidl
has a passion to help companies grow. He is known for his unique ability
to scale emerging growth and Fortune 500 technology companies. He has
served as Board Chairman, Board Director, Chief Executive Officer, and
SVP/General Manager in industry-leading organizations such as Hewlett
Packard, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, and EMC Corporation.
In
the past year, WekaIO has announced several noteworthy partnerships,
including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner status,
its partnership with HPE to develop all-flash HPC storage for AI, and a
partnership with the San Diego Supercomputer Center for the latter to
leverage WekaIO Matrix for advanced high-performance computing (HPC)
research and development. Accolades include a CRN 2017 Tech Innovator
Award and being named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner in April 2018.
Additionally, its solution has become available on AWS Marketplace, the
company was awarded nine patents with 52 more identified, it announced
native support for Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet intelligent
interconnect solutions, and it delivered record-breaking SPEC SFS® 2014
performance results earlier this year.
To learn more about the WekaIO Advisory Board go to www.weka.io/company/advisory-board.