Pillar Data Systems Continues Global Expansion By Bringing Application Aware Storage To Italy
Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware Storage systems, recently announced that it has expanded into Italy with the opening of an office in Milan. In hiring seasoned storage veteran Marin Debelic as Country Sales Manager to lead the Italian team, Pillar Data Systems continues to grow across the European market.
In the short time it has been doing business in Italy, Pillar has already added several new customers, including a major supermarket chain and Cedacri, a leading IT services provider to banking and financial institutions, to its expanding list of customers worldwide.
"I couldn't be more pleased to join the Pillar team at this exciting time in the company's history. Not in recent memory has there been more opportunity for a company that delivers more efficiency, value for money and world class customer service," said Debelic. "There's a real gap today in the Italian storage market for a vendor with truly differentiated technology and a business philosophy that embraces the channel. We fully expect Italy to be a great success for us, our partners and customers."
In addition to partnering with key resellers, Pillar's appointment of Marin Debelic as its new Italian Country Sales Manager will ensure its continued global success. Debelic brings with him an educational background in engineering and a strong network in Italy, where he successfully established and grew a solid customer base for NetApp. Debelic also held a key global position with Dell in Milan. In addition to his longstanding sales experience, Pillar will leverage his expertise in developing new markets in Southern Europe and the Balkans.
"With our innovative approach to Application-Aware storage and breakthroughs in efficiency, we can tangibly demonstrate our value to potential customers, resulting in continued growth around the globe," said Bob Maness, vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Channel Sales. "With talented people such as Marin Debelic on our team and our strategic alliances with key channel partners, we are confident that we will continue the level of success in Southern Europe as we've achieved in the U.S., and the rest of the world."
Pillar's innovation in storage technology extends beyond its industry-leading efficiency and 80 percent disk utilization guarantee. Recently, Pillar achieved outstanding performance and leading price-performance results for business-class storage based on its first SPC-1 Benchmark Result. In addition to outstanding performance, Pillar recently announced its innovative use of Solid State Drives (SSD) in the Pillar Axiom storage system. Through this technology, Pillar will drive down the $/IOP of SSDs to half that of traditional Fibre Channel drives.
Become a Pillar Channel Partner
With the recent increase in both European and North American activity, Pillar Data Systems is actively recruiting channel partners in these regions. As part of its partner program, Pillar is offering additional training and validation opportunities, as well as assisting in identifying key sales opportunities to ensure partner success in the field. With continuing education in upgrades, new products and technical support, Pillar's goal is to build a partner alliance that will ultimately prove lucrative for all parties, while continuing to provide a superior solution with top-notch customer service. For more information on how to become a Pillar partner, please visit http://www.pillardata.com/partners/channel/.
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise organizations. With the highest utilization rates in the storage industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage system on the market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage system that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed from the ground up as the only true Application-Aware Storage system, the Pillar Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. For more information, visit: http://www.pillardata.com.
SOURCE: Pillar Data Systems