Rubrik, the converged data management company, announced its expansion into Europe, Middle East and Africa. The company has experienced rapid customer growth in North America, and launched its operations in response to customer and partner demands in EMEA. Rubrik’s Converged Data Management software powers the company’s r300/r500 Series appliances, which deliver automated backup, instant recovery, unlimited replication, and data archival at infinite scale.
“Rubrik is the game changing innovation for data protection in the last two decades, and the company’s steep growth in North America has proven that,” said Bipul Sinha, Rubrik Co-founder and CEO. “We are excited to bring our solution to EMEA with our growing team and our strategic distributors and reseller partners.”
The company announced appointment of IT industry veteran Karl Driesen, as Head of EMEA Sales. As the former Vice President EMEA at Palo Alto Networks, Driesen built a team of over 200 employees and a $200M business in five years. Most recently, Driesen was a Vice President with Elastica.
Some achievements:
– Hired customer account teams in the UK, Belgium, France and Netherlands
– Signed major European and Middle Eastern distributors such as BigTec, Commtech, Evanssion including their partner networks
– Certified partner field engineers in the Rubrik Master Programme
– Sold production deployments in EMEA to end user customers in the business services, finance and government verticals
– Rubrik was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies
Rubrik provides the industry’s first converged data management appliance, delivering automated backup, recovery, replication, and data archival at infinite scale. Rubrik is built by key engineers behind Google, Facebook, VMware, and Data Domain. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Rubrik has raised $51 million from Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and enterprise IT luminaries, including John Thompson, Frank Slootman, and Mark Leslie.
