Press release

Elastifile’s Success in the Cloud Leads to Executive Leadership Expansion

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Elastifile,
the pioneer of enterprise-grade, scalable file storage for the public
cloud, today announced the appointment of David White to the newly
established position of Vice President of Cloud Operations, responsible
for leading the company’s service-centric operations and ensuring
customer success. He reports directly to Elastifile CEO Erwan Menard.

Capitalizing on the successful launch of Elastifile’s
fully managed, scalable file storage service on Google Cloud
, the
company is now further enhancing its operational infrastructure with
additional tools, resources, and personnel, as evidenced by the addition
of White. White’s strong track record of delivering operational
efficiency and customer satisfaction made him ideally suited to lead
Elastifile’s cloud operations and to support the continued growth of its
unique service offering.

“Joining Elastifile represents a unique opportunity to provide
operational leadership within a company that itself has become a leader
in the burgeoning market for cloud file storage,” said White. “I am
excited to contribute my energy and expertise to support Elastifile’s
continued success.”

White has nearly 30 years of experience in technology and has worked in
a variety of industries, including United Nations / NGOs, pharmacy,
behavioral healthcare and artificial intelligence. He comes to
Elastifile from Sentient Technologies, where he served as VP Technical
Operations, managing all technology functions, including networking,
cloud services, customer service, business development and globally
distributed compute, among others. Prior to Sentient, White was the
COO/CIO of PipelineRx/Pipeline Healthcare; IT Director at Stars
Behavioral Health Group; and Director of IT Operations at Posit Science;
Director IT Strategy Curative Health; among others. White holds a Master
of Arts in Linguistic Anthropology from UC Davis and a Bachelor of Arts
Degree in Sociology from Washington and Jefferson College.

“We are fortunate to have someone of David’s caliber leading our cloud
operations and supporting the evolution of our service offerings,” said
Menard. “His experience managing cloud environments and optimizing
service-centric infrastructure is invaluable and further augments
Elastifile’s unique expertise in delivering cloud-native, scalable file
storage solutions.”

Elastifile is generally available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon
Web Services (AWS), and bare metal on-premises environments, with
Microsoft Azure availability coming soon.

To try Elastifile as a fully-managed storage service on Google Cloud,
visit the Google
Cloud Platform Marketplace
or, to learn more about Elastifile’s
products and technology, visit https://www.elastifile.com.

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About Elastifile

Elastifile
helps organizations adapt and accelerate their business in the cloud
era. Powered by a dynamically scalable, enterprise-grade distributed
file system with intelligent object tiering, Elastifile augments
existing public cloud services and facilitates frictionless cloud
adoption. With Elastifile, organizations can deploy and manage
cloud-native file storage themselves and/or benefit from the advantages
of fully-managed file storage services, eliminating the need for manual
storage management and CapEx-intensive IT forecasting. Elastifile’s
unique combination of features and flexibility empowers organizations to
seamlessly integrate cloud resources, with no application refactoring
required…thereby modernizing their infrastructure and achieving their
crucial IT agility and efficiency goals.

Elastifile is based in Santa Clara, California and Herzliya, Israel,
with global Sales and Marketing offices in North America and Europe, and
R&D in Israel. Founded in 2013, Elastifile is backed by Battery
Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CE Ventures, and seven strategic
investors from the cloud, data center, and storage industries, including
Dell EMC, Cisco, and Western Digital.