Marc Farley Joins StorSimple to Lead Customer Community Growth

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StorSimple today announced that industry visionary Marc Farley has joined the company. In the last year, StorSimple business grew exponentially because of the fact that CIOs, from Enterprise companies like BMC Software to mid-sized customers like the Sundance Institute, are rushing to extend their data centers and storage infrastructures to the cloud. Given the benefit that cloud architectures can provide to customers, StorSimple’s focus is accelerating the growth of this community. To help lead this effort, Marc Farley joins the company as Senior Director of Community and Customer Programs.

“Throughout my career I’ve tried to identify the technologies and companies with the potential to be change agents for the rest of the industry,” said Farley. “This included the opportunity with EqualLogic with its Ethernet-based iSCSI storage followed by the groundbreaking virtualized utility storage architecture at 3PAR.”

Farley continued, “Many believe cloud integration with enterprise storage will bring the next sweeping change to our industry. StorSimple has developed extremely sophisticated and powerful technology to pursue this opportunity. More importantly, the StorSimple team is committed to building a customer-centric organization, and I’m extremely excited to join them and put my shoulder to the wheel.”

StorSimple is the leading provider of cloud integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. The company gains Marc’s deep industry experience, which ranges from authoring early seminal books on storage area networks (SANs), building customer communities in similar positions with HP, 3PAR, Dell and EqualLogic, and being a passionate industry evangelist through such vehicles as the Infosmack podcast and various video channels.

“Our business is fueled by two trends,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple co-founder and CEO. “The first is companies that want to build their own ‘iCloud for the enterprise’ and need the cloud data controller to do that. The second is that for tier 2 and tier 3 primary data, enterprise customers are more than willing to consolidate the different sorts of storage that are used to manage data into a single solution. This is cloud integrated enterprise storage, and we will grow the community around this category. I’m tremendously excited that we have Marc Farley on our team to lead this charge.”

StorSimple recently was selected as finalist for Storage magazine’s Product of the Year award in the storage systems category and was the only cloud integrated enterprise storage appliance recognized. In addition, the company was recognized as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner. These are the latest of numerous awards achieved on the basis of its innovative products and customer adoption.

To read more about this move, please go to Farley’s blog post and follow him on Twitter @metafarley.

About StorSimple

StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) is the leader in cloud-integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist.

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