Ranajit Nevatia President and CEO, Datagres

Datagres Technologies, Inc., provider of application I/O intelligence software for data-aware storage management solutions, announced the appointment of Ranajit Nevatia as CEO and president.

He joins the executive team to help take the company into its next phase of growth and expansion in existing and new markets.
 
Nevatia joins Datagres with a 20-year track record of scaling start-ups in early stage to building products within large companies in the field of enterprise storage software and cloud technology with a focus on product innovation and revenue creation. He was most recently the SVP of products and marketing at Bitcasa, where he launched the company’s cloud developer platform. Before Bitcasa, he served as VP at Panzura, responsible for marketing and inside sales. Prior to that, he held positions at Riverbed and is credited for bringing company’s Whitewater and Granite products to market. Additionally, he has held senior positions at Veritas and Oracle and was recognized for bringing the company’s flagship products for enterprise Linux to market.
 
“Datagres is uniquely positioned to redefine application centric storage, something I have believed in since my early days in storage,” said Nevatia. “I’m thrilled about joining the Datagres team and bringing its flagship product, PerfAccel, to the broader marketplace.“
 
Founder and former CEO Srinivasan Viswanathan is stepping into the role of CTO and will focus on perfecting the Datagres product and achieving his vision of delivering performance, scalability, and manageability for all application data in the simplest manner and at the lowest cost.
 
“We are lucky to have someone of Ranajit’s caliber to lead our efforts going forward,” said Viswanathan. “His expertise in marketing, product management and business-related issues in general will be of great value to Datagres.”
 
“Ranajit’s broad technical background coupled with his enterprise storage business experience and leadership made him the perfect fit for the job,” said Sandeep Singhal, managing partner, Nexus Ventures.  “Ranajit has a proven track record, and we look to his expertise to make Datagres a leading storage solutions company.”

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2012.10.01 | Press Release | [with our comments]