Erik Hardy Senior VP WW Sales, Nirvanix

Nirvanix announced the appointment of Erik Hardy as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, effective immediately. Hardy will report to Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix.

 Hardy
will be responsible for expanding the Nirvanix global sales
organization across vertical markets and international domains. He will
specifically focus on helping companies make the shift from the painful
task of procuring and managing monolithic storage disk arrays with high
up-front costs to the elastic flexibility, secure multi-tenancy and
usage-based pricing of enterprise cloud storage. Hardy will spearhead a
multi-pronged market share assault that includes launching a new global
channel partner program, forging strategic alliances and developing
emerging markets.

"As companies are being pressured to reduce up-front capital
expenditures for IT equipment, the ability to obtain their critical IT
resources based on actual business usage is making cloud storage
services an increasingly attractive business option," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO, Nirvanix. "Given
Erik’s extensive executive-level relationships in Fortune 500 companies
and SMBs combined with Nirvanix’s proven second generation cloud
storage solutions – currently in use by leading entertainment, biopharma
and IT companies worldwide – I’m confident that Nirvanix will further
expand its market share and new customer deployments in 2011."

"With continued advances in cloud storage, enterprises no longer have
to worry about obsolete hardware churn, barriers to content
collaboration and low utilization rates that often plague aging,
inflexible storage systems designed for a previous generation of
applications," said Erik Hardy, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Nirvanix. "With
the Nirvanix CloudComplete portfolio – which spans private, public and
hybrid cloud solutions – enterprises can slash capital expenditures,
achieve faster provisioning, improve their disaster recovery
capabilities and deploy applications faster than ever before. Nirvanix
cloud storage clearly delivers the lowest TCO in the industry when
compared to conventional storage offerings."

Hardy has nearly 20 years of sales management experience, optimally
balanced both in start-up sales and large, global field sales for tier
one IT vendors such as Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP),
Hitachi, Ltd.’s Data Systems unit (HDS) and 13 years with EMC, where he
was most recently Vice President of Global Accounts for North America.
Hardy joins Nirvanix from Xsigo Systems, a maker of virtual I/O
technologies, where he grew revenue 10-fold in a period of less than 24
months.