Matt Durkin EVP Sales, StorMagic

StorMagic, Inc. has hired Matthew Durkin as its new EVP sales.

 He will lead and oversee all global sales efforts for the company’s SvSAN virtual storage software, and serve on the executive management team.

Durkin comes to StorMagic from Dell’s Compellent business unit, where he led business development for the company’s health care group. Before that, he served as president and CEO for three companies over a decade: virtual tape company Neartek Inc., facilities software company Centerstone Software and database software company Terascape Software. He was responsible for worldwide sales at Data General’s CLARiiON business unit, and grew sales from $14 million to $700 million prior to the business unit’s acquisition by EMC. He also was the 17th employee hired at EMC Corporation, where he served as a product marketing and sales executive and helped drive the company’s growth.

“Matt has a long track record of success helping companies grow and evolve into market leaders, and will fit right in with our growth and results-oriented culture,” said Hans O’Sullivan, CEO, StorMagic. “He will play a vital role in helping us drive adoption of our leading SvSAN solution and continue our rapid corporate growth.“

“StorMagic has an amazing, software-only virtualized shared storage solution that’s solving a lot of availability challenges in edge environments – from smaller chains to retailers with thousands of stores running business critical applications,” said Durkin. “There’s tremendous potential for StorMagic to be the next great storage company, and I’m looking forward to turning that potential into reality.”