/EINPresswire.com/ -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - March 10, 2016) - Atlantis Computing, the leading provider of Software-Defined Storage (SDS), has announced a series of appointments to its senior leadership team, with four promotions covering key global, North American and EMEA roles:

• David Cumberworth takes on the role of worldwide vice president of sales. Mr. Cumberworth has been with Atlantis for over five years, having worked previously as vice president of international sales, responsible for the growth of the business in EMEA and APAC. His new role will see him lead the global sales organization.
• Rajiv Pimplaskar becomes the vice president of global accounts. Mr. Pimplaskar has been instrumental for over eight years in driving both early stage sale success and scaling the business globally for Atlantis.
• Timm Hoyt becomes vice president of sales in North America. He joined Atlantis a year ago as vice president of worldwide partner sales and alliances.
• Chris Plant has been appointed vice president of EMEA. Mr. Plant has five years of experience within the Atlantis EMEA team, having previously led the northern Europe sales operation.

All four appointments will allow Atlantis to benefit further from the existing experience each has in the business.

"I am delighted to see that these senior appointments are all coming from within our existing team," commented Chetan Venkatash, president and CEO of Atlantis. "David, Rajiv, Timm and Chris are each ideally placed to drive customer and partner adoption of Atlantis USX SDS and HyperScale hyperconverged appliance solutions on a global and regional basis. I look forward to continuing to work with them for many years to come."

About Atlantis

Atlantis, winner of the Best of VMworld and Best of Citrix Synergy awards, offers the industry's most flexible and powerful Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform. Atlantis delivers the performance of an all-flash array at half the cost of traditional storage. Atlantis HyperScale leverages the Atlantis patented SDS platform to deliver all-flash hyper-converged appliances that are 50 to 90 per cent lower cost than traditional storage or other hyper-converged appliances. To date, Atlantis has deployed over 120 petabytes of storage for more than 1,000 mission critical deployments and 1 million virtual workspaces, including some of the largest virtualization deployments in the world. Atlantis is privately held and funded by Adams Street Partners, Cisco Systems, El Dorado Ventures and Partech Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, California and offices in Europe.

Atlantis Computing, Atlantis HyperScale and Atlantis USX are trademarks of Atlantis Computing. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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