Scality Expands Go-To-Market Strategy With Pivotal Vice President Positions

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality, a world leader in object and cloud storage, today announced it has filled three key Vice President positions in the United States. David Savage, who joins Scality this month, will spearhead the Americas sales organization, which includes all US-based account executives, sales development representatives and sales engineers, and will drive go-to-market strategy for the region across all Scality sales functions, including strategic alliances, professional services, and support. Michelle Rockler, who joined in July, heads the company's global strategic alliances organization, which includes partnerships with Cisco, Dell, and HPE. Wally MacDermid, who joined in June, leads the company's cloud-focused business development efforts as it continues to inspire a new multi-cloud world with its recently-announced Scality Zenko Multi-cloud Controller.

"Our customer experience starts with our customer-facing teams and technology ecosystems as we solve significant storage problems for our customers with focus on petabyte-scale systems for large enterprise and service providers," said Erwan Menard, President and COO at Scality. "David Savage's and Michelle Rockler's experience is perfectly tailored to our aggressive expansion plans across all industry segments, including cloud service providers, telco/cable, IoT, financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment, industries with heavy research and development workloads, and government agencies."

Savage made a name for himself most recently at NetScout, where he served as VP of Sales and Business Development for its Cloud, SaaS, and Managed Services business. Prior to that, he held executive sales roles at Danaher, VMware, EMC, Micromuse, and AT&T. He brings a unique and well-rounded data center software sales acumen in serving both blue-chip enterprises and service providers, crafting innovative solutions with partners to fulfill specific customer needs.

As Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Michelle Rockler is responsible for building and scaling Scality's global strategic alliances and partnerships. Michelle is a results-oriented leader with a track record of managing partnership teams and delivering revenue growth. Michelle brings more than twenty years' experience across a broad spectrum of technology leaders in big data, cloud, data protection, server and virtualization. Prior to Scality, Michelle led award-winning relationships with Cisco and Microsoft and managed ecosystem alliances at NetApp, Barracuda Networks (Yosemite Technologies) and Dell EMC (Legato). Rockler is based in Scality's San Francisco headquarters.

"Wally MacDermid joins right as we launch our Zenko cloud controller product line, which builds on our leading Scality RING file and object storage product and expands our value-add for customers in the new multi-cloud era," added Menard.

MacDermid fills the newly-created global role of VP of Cloud Business Development. He focuses on developing go-to-market strategies for Scality's cloud solutions, bringing a deep understanding of the enterprise software infrastructure space and the proven ability to cultivate business with public cloud leaders. He most recently led the go-to-market strategy for Riverbed's AWS-focused business. Prior to that he concentrated on business development, strategic alliances, and marketing roles at multiple startups; most notably Onaro, which was acquired by NetApp. MacDermid is based in Scality's San Francisco headquarters.

About Scality
Scality, a world leader in object and cloud storage, develops cost-effective Software Defined Storage: the RING, which serves over 500 million end-users worldwide with over 800 billion objects in production; and the open-source Scality Zenko. Scality RING software deploys on any industry-standard x86 server, uniquely delivering performance, 100% availability and data durability, while integrating easily in the datacenter thanks to its native support for directory integration, traditional file applications and over 45 certified applications. Scality's complete solutions excel at serving the specific storage needs of Global 2000 Enterprise, Media and Entertainment, Government and Cloud Provider customers while delivering up to 90% reduction in TCO versus legacy storage. A global company, Scality is headquartered in San Francisco.

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