Abhijit Dey Chief Product Officer, DataCore

DataCore Software Corporation announced that Abhijit Dey, chief product officer, and Gregg Machon, VP, Americas sales, have joined the company’s executive team.

Both executives bring experience in the storage and IT infrastructure industries, helping the company to meet growing demand for its SDS solutions for block, file, and object storage.  

The additions come at a time of transformation and growth for DataCore. The company has made a significant investment in R&D, resulting in an increase of technical talent of more than 40% in the last 2 years alone while modernizing software development and testing practices, opening a center of excellence in Bangalore, India, and a new office in Austin, TX.

“The momentum we are seeing at DataCore underscores our longstanding commitment to building both a world-class product portfolio as well as recruiting and developing the best talent around the world,” said Dave Zabrowski, CEO. “As we continue our expansion and welcome industry leaders like Abhijit and Gregg to our team, our top priority remains serving our customers and providing them with the SDS platform that improves data access and protection while also reducing overall costs.“

The increase in resources dedicated to innovation will allow the company to continue accelerating its portfolio of storage products, which now includes SANsymphony, vFilO and Swarm, covering block, file, and object storage as well as automatic data movement and optimization. Last year the company made a strategic investment and joint venture in MayAdata: sponsors of the leading container-attached storage technology for Kubernetes, OpenEBS.

Throughout the challenges the world is facing with the pandemic, yhe firm remains a healthy, well-funded, and growing company: it had its 12th consecutive year of positive cash flow and double-digit growth in net new revenue over the last few quarters in which the company has added an average of over 100 net new customers per quarter, with a strong performance in government, healthcare, and cloud service provider verticals.

“DataCore’s continued growth is a direct result of our global partner and customer base and the trust they put in our technology every day,” said Dey. “Our solutions underscore our strategic DataCore ONE vision: to help customers realize the power of SDS, to break silos and hardware dependencies, and to unify the storage industry, thereby enabling IT to make storage smarter, more effective and easier to manage for our users.”

Abhijit Dey is a product and R&D executive with decades of experience in IT infrastructure product innovation. An expert in the intersection between strategy, product management, and customer success, he has utilized his experience to transform multiple large-scale and start-up corporations. He joins Datacore from Agari, in cybersecurity, where he was the SVP of product management and R&D. Prior to that, he served as VP of engineering at Druva, where he led the company’s SaaS-based data protection business. He also led various products in SDS, cloud-based backup, archival, enterprise vault, and analytics at Veritas and Symantec.

“I’m thrilled to join a fast-growing and innovative market leader like DataCore and to build a greater awareness of and demand for our portfolio with the IT channel throughout the Americas,” said Machon. “As organizations increasingly seek SDS for their primary and secondary storage requirements, we are seeing growing demand for a unified software-defined platform that can simplify and optimize storage tiers, managed by modern technologies such as predictive analytics and AI.“

Gregg Machon is a seasoned sales and channel executive with experience building profitable, leveraged channel sales models and programs across the world within the storage industry. Most recently, he helped build Qumulo‘s WW channel and OEM organization and led the company’s expansion into APAC through its OEM partnership with HPE. Before that, he led the North America storage channels for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which he joined through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage. There he was responsible for the overall channel go-to-market strategy to maximize sales productivity and customer satisfaction.  Prior to HPE and Nimble Storage, he was the director of WW channels at SolidFire. He has also served in leadership roles at NetApp, Isilon, and EMC.