Burstorm Appoints Dr. Sridhar Jagannathan as President and Chief Operating Officer
San Carlos, CA (PRWEB) November 04, 2015 -- Burstorm, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure modeling, announced today their Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Sridhar Jagannathan, as President and Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Jagannathan recently served as the Operating Partner at IndusAge Global Capital Managers, LLC and previously was the Chief Innovation Officer at Persistent Systems. During his 30-year career in the technology industry, Jagannathan has held several executive leadership roles at some of Silicon Valley’s most valuable companies including Oracle, Symantec and Intuit.
"Sri has shaped the software development culture and built significant businesses at some of Silicon Valley's most influential companies including Symantec and Intuit. He's an exceptional leader and technologist, and I am excited that he is taking a leadership role to help propel Burstorm to the next level," said Brandon Abbey, Burstorm's CEO and Founder.
Burstorm provides a platform for modeling cloud infrastructure, enabling every company to model, plan and strategize their internal and external cloud. Burstorm’s newly announced Cloud i2i (inspection to insight) offers actionable insights about a company's compute, storage, data center and networking infrastructure for captive, cloud and hybrid IT environments.
"The challenge and opportunity of every company is to maximize the leverage of the cloud for both usage optimization and risk minimization. A company’s cloud strategy and usage needs to be understood both at an executive and an operational level. With Burstorm, the company can create their own cloud-model to map internal and external IT infrastructure on a level playing field to understand utilization and trade-offs. Burstorm provides deep understanding and insight of usage and costs, leading to operational efficiency, planning and strategic decision-making. I am truly excited by the potential of Burstorm to advantage its customers. I cannot imagine a more strategic issue for any company than knowing and utilizing the cloud optimally.” said Dr. Jagannathan.
"We are very fortunate to have Sri Jagannathan join Burstorm. His technology expertise, strategic thinking and leadership will help more enterprise customers learn the power of the Burstorm application cloud service," said Timothy Chou, Burstorm’s Chairman of the Board.
About Dr. Sridhar Jagannathan
Dr. Sridhar Jagannathan was the Chief Innovation Officer at Persistent Systems, and the Head of the Persistent Venture Fund for early stage technology startups. Previously he was VP of Technology Strategy and Partnerships at Intuit, responsible for technology strategy, partnerships and M&A. He was the Managing Director for Symantec's India Development Center for consumer products. Earlier, Sridhar was Technical Director for Internet & eCommerce at Oracle Corporation, where he was in charge of technology strategy, product evolution for ecommerce and implementation. Sridhar is the author of two books, 'The Cyber Mafia' and 'Internet Commerce Metrics and Models'. He has taught courses at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and IIT, Madras. He has a doctorate in engineering from University of California, Berkeley, a Master's degree (Sloan Fellow) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.Tech (Hons) from IIT, Kharagpur. Dr. Jagannathan’s full bio profile is detailed on LinkedIn.
About Burstorm
Burstorm, Inc., a Silicon Valley technology company, provides a platform for modeling cloud infrastructure, enabling every company to model, operate, plan and strategize their internal and external cloud. The Burstorm platform offers an optimized and fully integrated CAD-type application for the next generation of cloud architects, designers, consultants, integrators and product managers. This platform provides product catalogs from providers and cloud performance benchmarks for comparison.
For further information, please contact Lori Bedford at [email protected] or visit the Burstorm website at http://www.burstorm.com
Lori Bedford, Burstorm, http://www.burstorm.com, +1 (415) 902-8467, [email protected]
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