Brian Schwarzentruber, Nirvanix's solutions architect.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Enterprise cloud storage provider Nirvanix (www.nirvanix.com) announced on Tuesday it has made three key appointments, including Stephen Foskett as director of consulting, Arvind Gidwani as director of solutions services, and Brian Schwarzentruber as solutions architect.
Nirvanix continues to grow its cloud storage services, having recently raised an additional $5 million in funding from original Series A investors including Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Windward Ventures.
This brings its total funding from its latest round of investment to more than $23 million.
Now, with the expansion of the Nirvanix team, the company says it is focused on working with “cross-divisional representatives within these enterprise organizations”.
The company hopes to educate the market on how to use the benefits of cloud storage while meeting or exceeding their existing storage SLAs.
Foskett has 15 years of experience consulting with leading companies to optimize their storage strategies, where he helped enterprise customers in aligning their data storage and computing infrastructures with their business objectives.
As a Microsoft File System Storage MVP, he is also involved in public writing, speaking, and storage community activities. He previously managed enterprise IT strategy consulting services at Contoural, GlassHouse Technologies, and StorageNetworks.
Gidwani has nearly two-decades of experience in the infrastructure areas including storage, networking, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, security and data center design, among others.
He has held IT management and system architect positions at Drivecam, Qualcomm, Cisco Systems and Applied Materials, and most recently worked with enterprise customers on IT strategy and the enabling of cloud computing for the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Schwarzentruber brings 20 years of experience in management at startup and public companies to Nirvanix, most recently serving as senior engineer at Continuity Software.
He has also served as a senior consultant in the strategy practice at GlassHouse Technologies, providing storage and backup technology optimization, reference architecture and remediation consultation to businesses seeking storage technology implementations to match their business requirements.
“Stephen, Arvind, and Brian bring exceptional experience in implementing enterprise-class storage solutions to Nirvanix,” says Jim Zierick, president and CEO of Nirvanix. “We look forward to leveraging that knowledge to ensure that our cloud storage offerings continue to meet the needs of enterprise customers. The addition of such experienced IT executives will greatly benefit our current and prospective customers by showing them how to get the most from their current assets while reducing capital expenditures.”
Online storage optimization solutions provider Ocarina Networks recently began offering Ocarina Optimized CloudNAS based on Nirvanix’s enterprise-class network-attached storage cloud software.
