David Nagle Board’s Advisory, Pliops

Pliops announced that David Nagle has joined its advisory board.

One of the influencers in the creation of exabyte-scale databases and storage solutions for the hyperscale world, he brings experience derived from senior positions with Facebook, Google and Panasas as well as his tenure as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

In his role as an advisor, he will guide the company’s vision for the evolution of cloud architecture and facilitate collaboration with other like-minded technology innovators. This appointment to the advisory board signals that Pliops is ramping up its resources as it moves into the next stage: preparing its storage processor for broad deployment.

With its storage processors, the company is transforming data center infrastructure to deliver increased scalability and decreased cost of data services. When compared to conventional approaches, its storage processors enable cloud and enterprise customers to access data over 100x faster and eliminate 90% of costly writes, while using a fraction of the computational load and power consumption. This solves the scalability challenges raised by the cloud data explosion, the increasing data requirements of operational databases, real time analytics and edge applications – and the end of Moore’s Law.

Prior to joining the advisory board, Nagle spent 3 years as the director of core storage systems at Facebook. There, he focused on scaling existing storage systems and building new storage systems to support billions of users, developing storage architectures that enable low-latency access and analysis of data for globally distributed systems. Before Facebook, he spent 10 years as director and lead of Google’s internal and cloud storage systems, where he was responsible for product direction, software development efforts, and collaboration with operations teams to manage both internal and external cloud storage. Prior to that, he worked for Panasas, where he was the lead architect behind the company’s scalable file system that changed the object-based storage paradigm.

“David is a recognized leader among hyperscale service providers and has a strong track record of success in the storage industry,” said Uri Beitler, CEO. “We are excited to tap into David’s knowledge, as well as his experience collaborating across the industry. His guidance will accelerate Pliops’ efforts to break new technology barriers and accelerate database storage functions.”

“As data and compute demand increases, a new way of scaling is needed,” said Nagle. “Pliops’ novel architecture creates the closest possible connection between application and flash storage, eliminating decades of accumulated legacy application, file system and storage layers and the associated inefficiencies. I am excited to work with Pliops to drive the next gen of accelerated datacenters.”