Three Storage Veterans From Nimble Storage, DSSD/EMC and HPE Join WekaIO Advisory Board

WekaIO, Inc. announced that seasoned storage professional Suresh Vasudevan, the CEO of open source container vendor Sysdig, Inc. and former CEO of Nimble Storage, has joined its newly established advisory board.

Joining Vasudevan on the advisory board is Bill Moore, former founder and CEO of rack-scale flash array start-up DSSD which was acquired by EMC in 2014, and Randy Seidl, founder of Revenue Acceleration and formerly of EMC and Hewlett Packard.
 
The appointment of seasoned executives who have led companies to growth will help accelerate WekaIO’s ability to scale revenue and customer acquisition.

As CEO of Nimble Storage, from 2011 -2017, Suresh Vasudevan, current the CEO of open source container vendor Sysdig, Inc., led the company from an early-stage start-up through an IPO, and to a customer-base some 10,000-strong coupled with almost $500 million in annual revenue, before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was CEO of Omneon, Inc., and before that spent nearly a decade at NetApp, where he held various senior executive positions.
 
“We are honored to have these tech leaders in storage on our advisory team,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO. “WekaIO has been on an explosive growth trajectory fueled by strategic partnerships and a growing customer base that value our product’s superiority as a scale-out storage solution capable of meeting customer requirements for performance, ease of use, and scalability.“
 
“I have aligned myself with WekaIO because I trust their vision and believe that Matrix will be instrumental in changing the way storage is provisioned in the datacenter,” said Vasudevan. “The industry is at a pivotal point where legacy file systems and storage appliances can’t support AI and deep learning workflows and the need for NVMe-optimized filesystems is now.“
 
Before joining Walden International, a highly technical investment firm, Bill Moore was the founder and CEO at DSSD, acquired by EMC in 2014. After acquisition he held the role of SVP and named as one of four EMC fellows. Prior to DSSD, he was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems where he co-led the development of the ZFS file system and served as chief engineer for storage. In addition to his numerous accolades, he was the first employee at 3PAR, acquired by HPE, developing their platform software and key elements of their flexible volume manager algorithms.
 
As the CEO of Revenue Acceleration and Top Talent Recruiting, Randy Seidl  helps companies grow. He is known for his ability to scale emerging growth and Fortune 500 technology companies. He has served as board chairman, board director, CEO, and SVP/GM in organizations such as Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, and EMC.