Morgan Littlewood SVP Product Management and Business Development, iXsystems

iXsystems, Inc. welcomes former Cisco and Violin Memory executive Morgan Littlewood.

He brings experience to the Last Bootstrapped Tech company in Silicon Valley and was instrumental in negotiating the TrueNAS platform partnership with Asigra, a backup solutions provider. He played a key role in productizing MPLS VPNs while at Cisco and helped establish Violin Memory as the first AFA vendor in the market.

“As a previous customer of iXsystems, I appreciate the software, engineering and support that iX provides the FreeNAS, TrueNAS, FreeBSD and TrueOS communities. The team has built a great platform for growing the future business and has done it with hard work rather than VC money. iXsystems is a leader in bringing Open Source economics to organizations large and small,” he said

His relationship with iXsystems began in the mid-2000s as an enterprise customer of iXsystems, establishing mutual insights.

He will oversee the TrueNAS and FreeNAS storage product lines while negotiating the relationships that will help grow iXsystems’ position in open source IT infrastructure.

“Our FreeNAS and TrueNAS business has been growing in excess of 50% per year. Morgan has the vision and energy to help us sustain this growth,” said Mike Lauth, CEO.

“Partnerships with software vendors, OEMs and our reseller channel will drive much of our growth in the future. With Morgan on the team we can be a better partner and drive more innovative solutions like our successful partnership with Asigra,” said Brett Davis, EVP.