ExaGrid Appoints Sam Elbeck as VP of Americas Sales and Channel Partners

New VP will drive sales and grow channel partnerships

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced the appointment of Sam Elbeck as the new VP of Americas Sales and Channel Partners.

“I am looking forward to working with the ExaGrid sales teams throughout the Americas, and help ExaGrid accelerate its growth within the $6 billion backup storage market,” said Sam Elbeck. He will work with the local ExaGrid teams across the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, alongside each Area Vice President, to strengthen channel partnerships and build successful programs with leading reseller partners in each region.

Sam Elbeck recently joined ExaGrid after his position as VP of Sales and Partnerships Americas for Arcserve, and prior to that he was Senior Global Director of Sales for Digital Compliance and SaaS Backup at Veritas. Sam was also VP of Sales and Business Development for Globanet, and held sales and technical leadership roles at both Symantec and IBM.

“ExaGrid is continuing to expand, with sales teams in more than 30 countries, as well as 4,200 active customer installations in more than 80 countries,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “We are pleased to welcome Sam Elbeck who will lead the sales teams in the Americas, and work with them to grow our partnerships in the channel and bring our Tiered Backup Storage solution to more organizations.”

About ExaGrid

ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier, delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks.

ExaGrid has physical sales and pre-sales systems engineers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, Chile, CIS, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nordics, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions.

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