Yee-ching Chao SVP of Engineering, ExaGrid

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced that Yee-ching Chao, ExaGrid’s former Senior VP of Engineering, has rejoined the company in the same capacity.

He was originally with ExaGrid for six years.  

He spent the last two years working for Amazon in Seattle, WA and now rejoins ExaGrid. He has over 30 years of product development and management experience, and has held key positions at Netezza, Charles River Development, and Siebel Systems. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, an MA in Mathematics from NE Missouri State University, and a BS in Mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. He is fluent in two languages and enjoys travel, especially to Taiwan where he grew up.

“ExaGrid’s engineering team has unwavering focus on product excellence and technical innovation.  I’m excited to once again lead product development as ExaGrid continues its move up market to larger enterprise environments,” said Yee-ching.

Bill Andrews, president and CEO, said: “We welcome Yee-ching’s return to once again drive our engineering efforts.  With his in-depth knowledge of our technology, product roadmap, and organization, he brings unique strength to our business as well as insight and expertise that few others possess.”

ExaGrid continued its move up market into larger accounts with its release earlier this year of its largest appliance to date – the EX40000E, which can take in up to a 1PB backup at an ingest rate of 200TB per hour; this is three times faster than its closest competitor. With its landing zone, the company delivers restores and VM boots that are five to ten times faster than any other provider of backup storage with data deduplication. The landing zone stores the most recent backups in their full undeduplicated form for restore, recovery, and VM boot performance that is up to ten times faster than inline deduplication appliances, such as EMC Data Domain’s, which only store deduplicated data. ExaGrid’s landing zone allows a VM boot ins to single-digit minutes versus hours for appliances that store only deduplicated data.