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[July 07, 2016]

Dr. Jai Menon Joins Superconverged Pioneer Cloudistics as Chief Scientist

Cloudistics, a superconverged enterprise cloud platform company, announced the appointment of technology visionary Jai Menon as its Chief Scientist. Dr. Menon brings deep infrastructure experience to the Cloudistics product line, having served as CTO for multi-billion dollar Systems businesses at both IBM (News - Alert) and Dell. He joined Dell in 2012 to develop their technical strategy, build alliances with industry partners and work with VCs and start-ups. He also guided Dell (News - Alert) Research from its formation in 2013 to develop organic innovation, work on collaborative research with leading universities, and create a long-range technology outlook to help inform Dell and Dell Research strategy and projects.

"The Cloudistics technology and user experience are truly disruptive and I am very excited to work with partners and enterprises to help them navigate to hybrid cloud infrastructures," said Jai Menon. "The company's ground-breaking Ignite product is the first true software-defined everything cloud infrastructure that integrates network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management within a single platform."

Prior to Dell, Menon served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technical Strategy for the Systems and Technology Group (STG) at IBM. There he set the direction for 15,000 developers, driving new growth-oriented business initiatives and developed external alliances with industry partners, VCs and universities. Menon holds over 50 patents and was one of the company's pioneers in developing RAID storage technology, an IBM Master Inventor and an IBM Fellow (IBM's highest technical honor). He has received industry-wide recognition as the winner of the IEEE (News - Alert) Wallace McDowell Award and the Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award.

"Jai has a deep understanding of infrastructure technology, a history of innovation and a powerful record of customer collaboration," said Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Cloudistics. "Our partners and customers will benefit directly from Jai's background and innovative spirit as Cloudistics works to help businesses transform IT to a just-in-time and on-demand cloud model."

About Cloudistics

Cloudistics delivers superconverged cloud infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-defined application cloud platform, natively converging network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a base infrastructure and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable economics and performance. With proprietary secure virtual networking, elastic storage, and SaaS (News - Alert) management, Cloudistics is the blueprint for application-optimized hybrid cloud infrastructures. Learn more at www.cloudistics.com

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