Tom Barton CEO, Diamanti

Diamanti, creators of bare-metal platform purpose-built for containerized applications, announced the appointment of Tom Barton as CEO.

He succeeds company co-founder Jeff Chou who continues on in an executive and board of directors role.

Barton, who also joins the Diamanti board of directors, previously served as CEO of Rackable Systems, and COO of Planet Labs.

“Diamanti is ready to take its breakthrough technology to the global enterprise market, and Tom brings critical experience to our team,” said investor Kevin Fong, special advisor, GSR Ventures. “Tom knows how to globally scale an early-stage company, differentiate products in highly competitive markets, and build an ecosystem of strategic partners and resellers to ensure success. We’re excited to have him take Diamanti to the next level.“

“Global 2000 enterprises are deploying digital transformation strategies that take advantage of the huge advances in performance and agility that new technologies like containers and Kuberetes enable,” Barton said. “Diamanti delivered the industry’s first container platform that has proven it can scale and deliver unmatched levels of performance in the enterprise. There could be no better time to join Diamanti and seize a unique opportunity to capture a multi-billion dollar market.“

The company has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor for its bare-metal container platform, and Database Trends and Applications has named Diamanti a 2018 Trend-Setting Product in Data Management. Other product accolades for Diamanti include being named a CRN 10 Coolest Cloud Storage Start-Ups and being included in Forbes 10 New Product Categories Created Exclusively for the Container Era.

Barton brings three decades of technology executive leadership to Diamanti. He served as CEO at Tintri for three months and CEO of Rackable Systems from December 2002 to April 2007, overseeing its growth from $25 million in annual sales to $360 million, taking the company public in 2005. Rackable Systems subsequently acquired SGI (renaming itself in the process) and was ultimately acquired by HPE. At space satellite pioneering start-up Planet Labs, he most recently served as COO and hired the entire executive team and led all operations, including the launch of 200 satellites as well as helping to negotiate a strategic partnership with Google to acquire its high-resolution imaging satellites. He previously served as an entrepreneur in residence at Lightspeed Venture Partners and was an executive at Red Hat Software and at McKinsey & Company.

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2017.02.24 | Press Release