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Actifio, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, pioneered the industry’s first storage system optimized for managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT infrastructure and data management applications. By introducing virtualization into data management, Actifio delivers an application-centric, SLA-driven solution that decouples the management of data from storage, network and server infrastructure and reduces costs by 10X. Actifio has helped liberate IT organizations and service providers of all sizes from vendor lock-in and the management challenges associated with exploding data growth. Actifio is headquartered in Waltham, MA. with offices around the world. For more information, please visit: http://www.actifio.com. Ash Ashutosh is CEO of Actifio, Inc. A 25 year veteran of the Storage industry, Ash was previously a Partner at Greylock Partners, and the Chief Technologist for HP’s StorageWorks division. Ash has been a serial entrepreneur, with a proven track record of delivering market
leading solutions, for about 15 years. He co-founded and led AppIQ, a market leader of Storage Resource Management (SRM) solutions, acquired by HP at the end of 2005. He was also the founder of Serano Systems, a Fibre Channel controller solutions provider, acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor in 1999. Ash was the Senior Vice President at StorageNetworks, industry’s first Storage Service Provider. Ash is a recognized leader and
architect in the storage industry where he has spearheaded several major industry initiatives and led the authoring of numerous storage industry standards. Ash is an avid fan of entrepreneurship and an advisor and board member for several commercial and non-profit organizations. Ash holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Penn State University.
ACTIFIO NAMED ONDEMAND TOP 100 WINNER BY ALWAYSON Leader in Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) Recognized for Eliminating Backup Software and Delivering on the Economic Promise of Cloud Data Management Services
ACTIFIO’S PAS PLATFORM RECEIVES THE SILVER CUP IN THE BACKUP HARDWARE CATEGORY in Storage magazine’s/SearchStorage.com’s 2011 Products of the Year competition.
Spectrami is a key player in Value Added Distributor (VAD) space with a focus specifically on information integrity solutions in the Middle East and Africa region. Spectrami was formed to redefine the way customers and partners deal with security and availability solutions and give a fresh approach to niche solution selling. With key focus on people, agile infrastructure, processes and channel enablement we would like to introduce a new experience which offers ease for the partners and radically improve the way integrity solutions are sold in the region. Spectrami today represents 14 vendors in security and availability space who have been rated by Gartner in various fields as leaders or visionaries.
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