– USA, NY – VAST Data, the storage company breaking decades-old tradeoffs, today announced the appointment of former NetApp President and Vice-Chairman, Tom Mendoza to its Board as the first independent board member.
In his role, Mendoza will advise on the company’s continued global expansion, relying on his proven industry experience in scaling business operations.
About Tom Mendoza
Tom Mendoza, who also serves on the boards of UiPath and Varonis, returns to his storage roots by joining VAST. Mendoza first joined NetApp in 1994 as Vice President of North America sales, later serving as President from 2000 to 2008, when he transitioned to the role of Vice-Chairman. During his time at NetApp, Tom built the company’s go-to-market organization from the ground up and played an instrumental role in defining its globally recognized culture.
“VAST’s incredible growth and overall customer adoption in such a short period of time, especially during this crisis, is a testament to its vision,” said Mendoza. “New applications are driving a set of requirements in a data infrastructure that we have never before seen. The market is recognizing this as it moves beyond legacy storage offerings and VAST is uniquely positioned to lead this transition. I am thrilled to join the VAST’s board and look forward to building the next great independent infrastructure company together.”
In addition, the company announced a series of business and corporate milestones as the adoption of Universal Storage continues to grow rapidly and take market share.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic creating market uncertainty for entire industries, VAST has continued its impressive momentum, experiencing Q2 2020 year-over-year revenue growth of 490%. This surge in business was driven by several new large customer orders and the continued expansion of existing customer environments. As businesses come to rely on fast access to vast reserves of data, VAST Data’s Universal Storage is quickly becoming the industry standard. VAST’s platform future-proofs data for everything from AI to rapid enterprise backup and recovery to containers and beyond.
“Coming off an industry record first year of sales in 2019 and more recently our $100M Series C funding at a $1.2B valuation, the adoption of Universal Storage continues to accelerate globally. In fact, we were above our very aggressive revenue target for both Q1 and Q2 of this year,” said Founder & CEO, Renen Hallak. “We are privileged to be led by an industry icon as we grow our business, and are very excited to have Mr. Mendoza join us in our mission to revolutionize the way organizations unlock value from their data.”
About VAST Data
Headquartered in New York City, VAST Data is a storage company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and HDD usage in the enterprise. VAST consolidates applications onto a highly scalable all-flash storage system to meet the performance needs of the most demanding workloads, while also redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, finally making it affordable enough to store all of your data. Since its launch in February 2019, VAST has established itself as the fastest-selling storage startup in history. VAST’s Universal Storage now powers several of the world’s leading data-centric computing centers.
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