Dani Naor VP International Sales, Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage, Inc. has appointed leaders from two of the big names in the enterprise computing industry to its management team – who will help scale its business in the face of growing demand for its enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) offerings.

 Dani Naor, new VP of international sales at Zadara, was previously VP of business development and international sales for XtremIO, acquired by EMC. He has over 25 years of storage and networking engineering, product management and sales expertise, including co-founding storage start-up StoreAge and leading teams in multiple geographies. At Zadara he will spearhead the company’s expansion in the EMEA and APAC regions by adding partners, channels, hosting companies, service providers, OEMs and strategic customers, along with additional team hires. He is based in R&D center in Israel.

 Craig Carl, new VP of product management at Zadara, was previously a solution architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is a veteran storage systems expert across both public and private clouds with experience in evangelizing, designing, implementing, maintaining, and selling enterprise storage. Prior to AWS, he held senior roles at Gluster, 4Base Technology, Kovarus and McAfee.com. At Zadara he will set the product roadmap and lead the product definition of new solutions and expanded functionality that set the stage for continued fast revenue growth. He is based in the Seattle, WA area.

These new appointments follow Zadara’s three consecutive quarters of doubled revenues Q/Q – growth that speaks to the strong market demand for flexible, pure OpEx, fully managed storage in public, private and hybrid clouds.

Several of the Fortune 50 along with hundreds of major organizations use Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSAs) solution to enable NAS and SAN functionality in the cloud that delivers the same high QoS, performant features of the traditional on-premise storage that is now found only in enterprise data centers.

The company was named in the Cool Vendors in Storage technologies, 2014 report by Gartner and has partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Dimension Data, CloudSigma, and more – partners whose customers also need the scalability, reliability, availability, serviceability, and performance that STaaS solutions enable.

“We are very fortunate to be able to attract talent of the caliber of Dani and Craig,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara. “Their proven track record in enterprise storage and cloud solutions will help Zadara Storage to establish ourselves as a leader in STaaS for public and private clouds.”

The company’s as-a-service model offers enterprises, SMBs and start-ups a flexible, agile and cost-efficient storage infrastructure, available on-premise and through a range of worldwide cloud and colocation providers, including value-added relationships with AWS and Microsoft Azure.