Nirvanix Hires Three Industry Veterans as Enterprise Cloud Storage Business Expands

Director of Consulting, Director of Solutions Services, Solutions Architect bring decades of experience to enterprise-focused storage strategy

SAN DIEGO, April 21 /PRNewswire/ — Nirvanix, the premier enterprise Cloud Storage service provider, today announced the additions of Stephen Foskett as Director of Consulting, Arvind Gidwani as Director of Solutions Services, and Brian Schwarzentruber as Solutions Architect. The three new hires bring decades of experience in architecting enterprise storage solutions and IT consulting to Nirvanix, helping customers better utilize Cloud Storage services within their existing infrastructures.

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Nirvanix offers organizations a new way to ease the burden of storage management, providing a new tier of offsite storage that extends the life of current assets while eliminating the need to overprovision. Many organizations are eager to understand where Cloud Storage fits into their existing processes and how it can reduce costs and free up resources to work on core activities. The new additions to the Nirvanix team are focused on working with cross-divisional representatives within these enterprise organizations and educating the market in general on how to leverage the benefits of Cloud Storage while meeting or exceeding their existing storage SLAs.

Foskett has 15 years of experience consulting with leading companies to optimize their storage strategies, as well as serving as a writer, speaker, and blogger in the storage industry. In his consultancy, Foskett focuses on assisting enterprise customers in aligning their data storage and computing infrastructures with their business objectives. A Microsoft File System Storage MVP, Foskett will continue his public writing, speaking, and storage community activities. He previously managed enterprise IT strategy consulting services at Contoural, GlassHouse Technologies, and StorageNetworks.

Gidwani brings in-depth expertise in infrastructure areas including storage, networking, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, security and data center design, among others. In his nearly two-decade career, he has held IT management and system architect positions at Drivecam Inc., Qualcomm, Cisco Systems and Applied Materials Inc. Most recently he was at Stratoform Technologies where he worked with leading enterprise customers on IT strategy and the enabling of Cloud Computing for the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Schwarzentruber brings 20 years of experience in management at startup and public companies to Nirvanix. He most recently served Senior Engineer at Continuity Software Inc., implementing software and service solutions to a market that included enterprise and Fortune 500 accounts. He served as a senior consultant in the strategy practice at GlassHouse Technologies, providing storage and backup technology optimization, reference architecture and remediation consultation to businesses seeking storage technology implementations to match their business requirements.

“Stephen, Arvind, and Brian bring exceptional experience in implementing enterprise-class storage solutions to Nirvanix,” said Jim Zierick, President & CEO of Nirvanix. “We look forward to leveraging that knowledge to ensure that our Cloud Storage offerings continue to meet the needs of enterprise customers. The addition of such experienced IT executives will greatly benefit our current and prospective customers by showing them how to get the most from their current assets while reducing capital expenditures.”

About Nirvanix

Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nirvanix is privately held and has raised more then $23 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund. Nirvanix has over 500 customers ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 10 organizations and include Arizona State University, Nero, and The Planet, among others.

For more information about the company and its services, visit www.nirvanix.com.

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