Sanjay Hasija is new country head of Quantum Storage India

BANGALORE, INDIA: Quantum Storage India, today announced the appointment of Sanjay Hasija as the country head for India & SAARC. In his role, Sanjay will be responsible for expanding Quantum's customer base, market share and partnerships, thereby strengthening company foothold across the regions.

Scale-out storage being a key focus area for Quantum, Sanjay will strongly focus on the recently announced Scale-Out Storage solutions and further expand its market presence and compete aggressively with the other market players.

Quantum Storage India recently increased its presence in the region and opened its Center of Excellence in Bangalore. The COE showcase solutions of Quantum Corporation ("Quantum") and customers and partners can run proof of concept, demo and performance testing for these solutions.

"It is an exciting time for Quantum in India and it is an important market for us. Rapid growth in data generation amongst the enterprise as well as the government segment is primarily pushing more focus and priority in the storage market in India. We see huge demand across verticals such as healthcare and life sciences, service providers, finance and banking, surveillance and recordings as well as media and entertainment in which our solutions play a big part in optimizing storage for modern digital workflow. We will work with our strong partner community to address the growing need for storage technologies especially with our expertise in both data protection and scale-out storage," said Sanjay Hasija, country head, India & SAARC, Quantum Storage India.

"We are excited to have Sanjay on board in India. India is a key market for Quantum and we expect 2014 to be a very promising year for Quantum with our newly released StorNext solutions and our focus on scale-out storage which we are seeing more tractions across the region," said Edmond Tay, Regional Director for Quantum, South Asia.