Doug Soltesz Director of Product Solutions, Storage Made Easy

Storage Made Easy, the trading name of Vehera LTD. announced that Doug Soltesz has joined the company as director of product solutions.

 
He is another addition that forms part of a strategy to increase enterprise expertise as the company continues to win enterprise business in the object storage and governance and compliance market.

Based in San Francisco, CA, he worked for both SwiftStack and Cloudian, in on-premise object storage. His focus has been to build solutions, enabling end users to seamlessly consume next generation ccloud APIs. His passion stems from experiencing first hand the challenges of today’s IT professionals as CIO of Budd Van Lines for 10+ years. An early adopter of virtualization, VDI, and cloud, he has shared his knowledge by coaching developers and enterprises alike. A speaker and panelist, he has conducted sessions at AWS Re:Invent, VMworld, OpenStack Summit and Citrix Synergy. 

As director of product solutions, he looks to solve the ‘Last Mile’ problem – issues experienced when consuming today’s mix of private and public cloud storage.
 
Jim Liddle, CEO, said: “I am really pleased to have Doug onboard. Along with recent hires Erik Joelsson, director of engineering, and Steven Sweeting, director of product management, Doug is a key hire with regards to our increasing focus on enterprise engagement due to infrastructure modernisation projects that encompass content consolidation and optimizing/replacement of existing storage footprints.”