Kash Shaikh president and CEO, Virtana

Virtana, Inc. announced that Kash Shaikh has joined the company as president and CEO.

He was most recently global VP and GM for the enterprise infrastructure solutions business for Dell Technologies, which grew 28% under his leadership to $1.7 billion.

During his tenure at Dell, he led the business units through a transformation, re-engineering investments, creating new business models, building partner alliances, offshoring, and outsourcing relationships-all while increasing sales and marketing effectiveness to drive operational efficiencies, revenue growth, and margin expansion.

He joins Virtana to maximize the hybrid cloud leader’s success, providing Global 2000 companies with the tools they need to optimize and manage hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

“As an executive with a proven track record of business transformation in data center and cloud markets, Kash is the right person to lead Virtana as we help our Global 2000 customers and their partners use our high-fidelity data sets to plan and optimize their hybrid cloud migrations for cost, capacity, and performance,” said Ron Sege, executive chairman. “He has hands-on experience in every aspect of the business necessary to our success and is known for building and motivating great teams.“

Prior to joining Dell, Shaikh served as VP, global marketing and business development of Ruckus Wireless (acquired by Brocade), corporate VP platform marketing and business development of Riverbed Technology (acquired by private equity firm, Thoma Bravo), and held executive leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Earlier in his career, he held marketing and engineering leadership positions with Cisco and Nortel Networks.

For the last 5 years, he has also served as board member of Ignited, a non-profit that provides unique professional development opportunities around STEM for teachers, employees, and university researchers.

“Virtana is poised for accelerated growth as it extends its competencies in data center and private cloud optimization to new hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” said Shaikh. “The company’s Global 2000 customers have long valued Virtana as a partner in optimizing and managing their on-premises and private cloud infrastructure. We now have the unique opportunity to use the rich data sets coming from our AI-powered, high-performance monitoring tools to help customers and partners efficiently and effectively move to the public cloud and manage cloud resources for cost, performance, and availability.“

Shaikh has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NED University, a master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wichita State University, and an MBA from Boise State University.

When he is not working, he enjoys modern minimalist home designs, traveling, learning new things, cycling, and coaching his daughter.

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