Michael Croll VP WW Sales, InfiniteIO

InfiniteIO, Inc. announced that Michael Croll, former IBM and EMC sales leader, is its new VP of WW sales to help address the demand for hybrid cloud storage solutions that optimize on-site and cloud storage at enterprise scale.

He joins with over two decades of experience in sales and sales leadership bringing innovative technology solutions to the public and private sector, domestically and internationally.

Responsible for leading sales and revenue growth, hiss appointment builds on the company’s investment in engineering, sales and marketing to meet the growing demand for easy-to-manage, high-performing hybrid cloud storage environments.

Enterprise, life sciences, media and entertainment, and engineering organizations have realized that data management strategies must balance storage cost and performance to support productivity and profitability goals. Firm’s metadata-first approach to hybrid cloud data management is helping customers and partners slash infrastructure costs and deliver performance levels that are equally high in both on-premises and cloud-based storage, without causing disruption to existing workflows.

“Optimizing storage in a hybrid world is a critical strategy for today’s enterprises as they contend with 50% annual data growth,” said Mark Cree, CEO. “Michael’s expertise in data center infrastructure and cloud computing will help customers and partners extend their existing IT investments while embracing hybrid cloud. We welcome his experience in leading sales organizations to propel us to the next stage of our growth.”

Croll joins InfiniteIO from Cleversafe (now IBM Cloud Object Storage), where he was VP sales and operations for the North America public market. Prior to that, he built and led sales teams and grew revenue streams for emerging-growth storage vendors including Data Domain and EMC (now Dell/EMC).

“InfiniteIO’s technology combines cloud economics with flash performance to eliminate trade-offs between storage cost and performance optimization,” he said. “Customers and partners can realize this game-changing benefit with zero changes to existing users or systems. As organizations drive IT transformation in the hybrid cloud era, we can accelerate their ability to reduce capex spend and improve ROI on storage and cloud investments through our unique, metadata-driven insights to data management.”