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Quantum appoints Guna Sekaran as country manager

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Storage company Quantum Storage India opened new offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi and announced the appointed of Guna Sekaran R as its country manger for India and Sri Lanka.

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Quantum Storage India will also open two centers of excellence (CoE) in Bangalore and Delhi. These will showcase solutions of Quantum Corporation and customers can run proof of concept (PoC), demo and performance testing of big data management and data protection solutions.

“As the storage market in India is growing rapidly, we see a substantial opportunity for data protection and big data solutions across government sectors, large corporations and fast emerging small and medium business segment,” said Jeff Lebold, area vice president, Sales, Quantum. “Guna, with his expertise in the storage arena and related technologies, coupled with industry-wide relationships, will be an asset to the company, customers, and partners all alike.”

In his role, Guna will be responsible for expanding Quantum’s customer base, market share and partnerships, thereby strengthening company foothold across the regions.

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Guna Sekaran said: “While Quantum has an existing large customer base in the region, there is potential to grow this more significantly in Quantum’s fiscal 2013. I will apply my past experiences to tap the growing market demands in the region.”

Guna Sekaran brings more than 19 years of experience to the role, having previously held positions in sales, sales management and channel management. He joined Quantum Storage India from Huawei Symantec India, where he headed channels, sales, marketing & alliances. Prior to this, Guna held several positions at Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp, Quantum, Tandberg Data and Ingram Micro.

He holds engineering degree in Computer Science and Business from Bharathidasan and Annamalai universities in Tamil Nadu.

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