John Harechmak, WW VP Systems Engineering and Customer Success, Hammerspace

Hammerspace, Inc. appointed John Harechmak as the new WW VP of systems engineering and customer success.

In this role, he leads the solution architect team, oversees post-sales implementation and customer education, and ensures ongoing customer success. With him, the company rounds out a senior leadership team with a technology experience from organizations including Avere, Cohesity, DDN, Enterprise Strategy Group, FusionIO, NetApp, Panzura, Quantum, Qumulo, and Veritas/Symantec.

Harechmak brings more than 30 years of experience in the storage and management industry, leading technical teams and helping customers solve their most challenging data management challenges with the latest innovative solutions and technologies. For the past 4 years, he built and led Cohesity’s WW technical sales and system engineering teams, focusing on customer experience and success. Prior to that, he served in various high-level systems engineering, technical sales and advanced services roles at storage companies, including NetApp, Nutanix and Nimble Storage.
 
“For years, organizations have been seeking a way to share data across sites in the data center and the cloud, under one management interface, as one big namespace, and with optimized orchestration – but to no avail. Hammerspace has solved this difficult challenge and is shifting the data paradigm with its very powerful Global Data Environment,” he said. “Hammerspace’s revolutionary approach allows organizations to give their users, applications, and cloud services high-performance local access to data, no matter where it is stored, to accelerate data-driven projects from inception to collaboration to archive across decentralized environments. This approach is truly a game-changer.”

Hammerspace introduced a Global Data Environment to connect global users and applications with their data, at the edge and on any existing data center or public cloud infrastructure. Organizations have struggled for decades with the challenge of using file data outside the data center where it was created. This limitation constrains the speed of research, innovation and growth of data-driven businesses. This Global Data Environment unifies all data across storage silos into a single namespace, provides intelligent and efficient data orchestration, and provides high-performance local data access to remote applications and users wherever they reside around the world.
 
“John’s outstanding systems engineering background and strong reputation for driving customer success make him a great asset to our team,” said David Flynn, founder and CEO. “His proven success in dramatically scaling operations in high-growth businesses will be instrumental as we scale operations and drive customer success as decentralized organizations implement their global data architectures.“