RAID Inc. Enlists Software-Defined Storage Executive as VP of Marketing

    ANDOVER, MA, July 30, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- RAID Inc. a high performance computing solutions company, today announced that storage industry specialist Trenton R. Baker has joined the fast-growing company as VP of Marketing to help scale RAID's growth and go-to-market operations. Baker will quarterback the surge into Microsoft's flash-centric hyperconverged Storage Spaces Direct and Azure Stack hybrid cloud architectures, by building upon RAID Inc.'s well-established pedigree as massively scalable high performance computing (HPC) storage technical experts.

"RAID Inc. is ideally positioned to build on our record 50% revenue growth in the HPC market by providing focused and unbiased technically sound storage solutions," states Bob Picardi, CEO of RAID Inc. "Trenton joins RAID at a great time, bringing with him solid industry partner relationships and experience with hyperconverged and cloud installations, that will raise our success in these markets to a new level."

Baker brings nearly 20 years of OS-agnostic hardware and storage experience with an extensive background in enterprise strategy, partner relationship management, demand generation, product marketing and channel growth. Most recently, he served in a channel and alliance VP role forging the adoption of Microsoft's Scale-Out Files Server technology-commonly known as Storage Spaces. He also has held growth oriented roles at ZFS-oriented Nexenta Systems, where he helped to define the birth of software defined storage with 486% YoY growth.

"Recently reported by Wikibon, the Big Data market should reach $92 billion and private cloud deployments are proposed to top $200 billion by the same year," Trenton R. Baker, VP Marketing, RAID Inc. "In joining the RAID Inc. team, I feel that we have the opportunity to strike while the iron is hot but more importantly guide our clients through this hyperscale growth period with the RAID Agnostic Approach, where we compare and contrast various architectures, since storage is no long a one trick pony."

Baker's addition is a result of a strategic corporate-wide growth plan to expand market opportunities for the company. Private cloud and virtualization experts interested in job opportunities within a rapidly growing and innovative company can visit http://www.RAIDinc.com/company/employment for more information.

RAID Inc. was founded in 1994 to deliver end-to-end performance-driven technical computing and storage solutions. The company has earned industry praise for providing platform agnostic technical guidance in high performance computing (HPC), big data, cloud and software-defined data centers-in the most efficient, reliable and cost effective manner. The world's leading research facilities, government, life science, financial, healthcare, energy, and cloud service providers can leverage the RAID Inc. team of engineers' extensive academic, research lab and commercial expertise that make RAID Inc. a trusted industry leader. More information found at http://www.RAIDinc.com, call +1 (800)330-7335 or comment via @RAIDinc.

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