Al Pendergast Country Manager for Canada, LizradFS

LizardFS software-defined storage is a distributed, parallel, scalable, fault-tolerant, geo-redundant and highly available file system from Skytechnology Sp. z o.o. in Poland.

The company announced that Al Pendergast has joined its team as country manager for Canada. At LizardFS, he is charged with scaling the sales team and growing markets across Canada.

LizardFS application is cross sector. With a customer base in telecom, media, educational institutes, research institutes and healthcare. The possibilities for expansion within Canada are looking promising.

Skytechnology also plans to continue adding features to LizardFS as well as offering enterprise support.

“I am very excited to join the outstanding team at lizardFS and to continue expanding the sales reach of lizardFS dynamic benefits offering. We offer full maintenance, development and support for LizardFS including, 24/7 support, we can assist our clients to meet their unique and specific needs and, if necessary, develop new features upon request. We can provide a tailor-made comprehensive solution (hardware and software). We can guide in migrating the data from your current storage solution(s) to LizardFS (possibly using the hardware you already have) to start taking advantage of our unique feature set,” said Pendergast.

“Al joins LizardFS during a time of rapid growth. He will play a vital role in managing this growth and driving expansion across Canada,” said Simon Haly, CSO. “We are excited to welcome Al to the team.”