A California based Data Storage startup company WekaIO announced that Andy Watson is appointed as their new CTO. Andy Watson used to be the CTO of a cloud-based data storage company named Minio.
For those who don’t know about Andy Watson, he has been a CTO at NetApp, has been one of earlier adopters of the first purpose-built NFS file servers.
WekaIO develops scalable file storage for data-heavy applications. The company has raised $32 million in investment according to Pitchbook data. The company maintains an office in Tel Aviv.
WekaIO holds the reputation of being 7x faster than All-Flash NAS and has been deemed as the fastest parallel file system. They have also been selected by TuSimple for their AI in addition to the AIconic Award.
They are already partnered with Amazon Web Services, Google, Cisco, Intel and other major brands to deliver their services.
They have received numerous awards without the help of new CTO Andy Watson as it is. With him, the company believes in greater progress for the future.
WekaIO firmly believes that Andy Watson would be able to lead them towards better results in technology, innovations, and businesss success in the future and put them in a position to able to provide their services to many more people and clients.
They already have been performing quite well as a startup, but with Andy Watson, they may be able to reach new heights in the near future.
