Tony Craythorne SVP of WW Sales, Komprise, With Y/Y 500% Increase in Number of Enterprise Customers

Komprise, Inc., in intelligent data management across clouds, announced global record customer adoptions and sales growth, with a year-to-year 500% increase in the number of enterprise customers across all industries and regions, including dozens of Fortune 500 organizations.

It also announced the appointment of Tony Craythorne as SVP of WW sales, bringing decades of deep sales and channel expertise to further accelerate company’s expansion.

He brings over 25 years of sales experience, leading sales teams in the USA, Europe and Asia. Most recently he was SVP WW Sales at NexSan Storage where he re-architected their go-to-market and channel strategy leading to consecutive quarters of growth for the company. Prior to that, he held senior management positions at a number of storage companies including Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, Nexgen (acquired by Pivot 3), Bell Micro and Connected Data.

“In less than 3 years since inception, Komprise has raised the bar in data management by simplifying with analytics across storage the use cases of active archival, DR, and data migrations, and by empowering enterprises to manage their data in the cloud or on-premises at a lower cost,” said Craythorne “Forging ahead in 2018, we are highly confident on our ability to quickly win new enterprise customers, while growing our repeat customer business – all of which will point to our next stage of growth and leadership.”

Expanding Market Leadership
Founded in 2015, Komprise has set records for growth with its Komprise Intelligent Data Management solution.

In less than three years, Komprise has accomplished the following:
• Grew employee base worldwide with new field offices across the globe.
• Hit 500% annual customer growth across segments – financial services, engineering/manufacturing, genomics, education, public sector.
• Partnerships with storage and cloud industry players, and channel relationships
• 3 new key product releases, supporting different NFS, SMB/CIFS, object and cloud platforms;
• Received 8 industry awards including CRN Tech Innovator, Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN Emerging Vendors, CRN Women of the Channel.

Komprise Intelligent Data Management enables customers to streamline NAS storage costs and ongoing cloud operations by using analytics to intelligently automate archiving and replication/DR, as well as to provide transparent access of data across on-premises NAS storage and the cloud. By using analytics, Komprise’s solution identifies the data best suited for the cloud, then transparently archives and replicates the data. Customer-defined policies are automated to move and manage data across on-premises NAS storage and the appropriate storage tiers, in such a way that users and applications continue to see the data as files on their NAS storage.