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Scality appoints Peter Brennan as chief revenue officer
March 2023 by Marc Jacob
Scality announced that it has appointed an experienced former HPE executive, Peter Brennan, as chief revenue officer (CRO). Scality’s addition of the CRO role reflects its mission to capture increasing market share in the thriving file and object storage space. Expanding growth activities worldwide, Brennan will lead sales and marketing efforts to maximise revenue with an emphasis on partners and the channel.
The rise in ransomware attacks, unstructured data growth and architectural complexity are pushing more IT buyers to seek and adopt modern file and object storage solutions. Scality’s appointment of Brennan positions the company to reach more of these IT buyers faster and comes on the heels of:
– Veeam’s selection of Scality as an inaugural launch partner for Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI) integration in the new Veeam Data Platform
– FY2022 results, including a 28% YoY increase in partner-led business in the US alone
With over 20 years of data storage leadership, Brennan will lean on his experience bringing hybrid-cloud, hyper-converged, and data storage businesses into a new era to broaden Scality’s reach. During the last three years at HPE, Brennan successfully transitioned a multi-billion dollar business from a pure-play infrastructure sale into an as-a-service model. Prior to this, Brennan led a worldwide specialist sales organisation for VMware, focused on hyper-converged and hybrid-cloud solutions. The business grew to over 20k customers and became the second fastest billion-dollar run rate solution in company history. He has also held channel and sales leadership positions at HPE, LeftHand Networks, Opsware, CommVault, and EMC.
Scality’s cloud-like experience in the data centre replaces traditional block solutions to handle modern capacity and security requirements. With the increased threat of ransomware, the data immutability capabilities inherent to object storage provide an added layer of security. IT is empowered to build robust data protection architectures that are fast, flexible and easy to deploy.
