100 New Hires Planned Through September for DDN

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) is hiring engineers, support and sales team members for its newly-created Server Virtualization, Analytics, VDI, Container and DevOps division.

This division will focus on helping enterprises get the most value out of their flash, virtualized and containerized hybrid cloud environments. The company is targeting to complete this round of hiring by the end of September.

“We are well on our way to achieving a critical team size of 100 people for our development, support and delivery of leading flash-based enterprise virtualization, analytics, and containerized storage solutions,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder.

Recent senior hires include:

• Jagan Raghu, former Tintri VP engineering;
• Sven Oehme, former IBM elastic storage chief research strategist;
• Phil Trickovic, former Tintri VP sales for Americas East Coast, Latin America and Federal;
• Peter Jones, former Intel director of engineering;
• Mark Walsh, former Tintri European operations leader;
• Andreas Dilger, former Intel principal engineer;
• Graham Breeze, one of Tintri’s first employees and field CTO; and
• Marty Murphy, former Tintri channels leader for the Americas East Coast.