Carlo Garbagnati VP Engineering, Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc. announced 2 executive appointments that strengthen the company’s technical leadership.

Carlo Garbagnati joined as VP of engineering, bringing 25 years of management experience in storage and infrastructure. He previously served as an engineering VP at HDS, Pivot3, BlueArc, Quantum and Meridian Data, overseeing development and delivery of hardware and software products as well as multi-site team management, quality assurance and sustaining engineering.

He succeeds Gary Ogasawara, whom Cloudian has named as its first CTO.

These executive appointments reinforce the company’s emergence as an independent object storage provider, most recently reflected in Cloudian’s new partnerships with VMware and Seagate.

“Carlo’s success in driving the development of innovative solutions within highly competitive markets-including hybrid cloud and big data analytics-makes him a great addition to the Cloudian team,” said Michael Tso, CEO. “He will scale our engineering team worldwide and ensure we continue to provide customers with the best storage platform to protect and leverage their growing data volumes, both on-premises and in hybrid cloud environments.”

“The strength of Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform-from its fully native S3 compatibility to its rich metadata tagging and other unique features-is clearly evident from the company’s success in expanding its customer base and industry alliances over the past few years,” said Garbagnati. “I am excited to work with the engineering team to build on the industry-defining work they’ve done and deliver even greater benefits to our customers and partners.“

New CTO Position
In his new role as CTO, former VP of engineering Gary Ogasawara will focus on long-term technology vision and direction, including the interaction of HyperStore with next-gen data analytics platforms, container-based compute technologies and multi-cloud architectures.

“As head of engineering since Cloudian’s founding, Gary has been instrumental to our success,” Tso said. “I look forward to his continued contributions to drive Cloudian’s strategy in future-gen data management solutions.”

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May 14, 2017 | Press Release