Qumulo Appoints Peter Zaballos as Chief Marketing Officer

Universal-Scale File Storage Leader Adds Accomplished Cloud Veteran to Executive Team


SEATTLE, May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Qumulo, the leader in universal-scale file storage, today announced the appointment of Peter Zaballos as chief marketing officer (CMO). Zaballos is a veteran marketing executive with experience scaling high growth SaaS and cloud companies through innovative and highly successful go-to-market strategies. In his new role, Zaballos will be responsible for leading Qumulo’s global marketing and preparing the company for its next stage of growth.

Since inception, Qumulo has demonstrated increased momentum, impressive growth, and customer traction through continuous product innovation. Today, hundreds of enterprise customers depend on Qumulo for modern, scalable and high performance file storage that spans the data center and the cloud. Zaballos was tapped for his marketing innovation and proven track record with high growth companies as they scale. His business insight, go-to-market expertise and technology industry experience will further elevate the Qumulo brand.

“With our aggressive growth plans, it was critical that we brought a marketing leader on board who had the right experience in category creation and market disruption,” said Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo. “I am thrilled to say that we have found that in Pete. He brings just the right experience at a time of high growth and rapid evolution, and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come.”

Zaballos comes to Qumulo with more than 25 years of experience leading marketing organizations at disruptive, high growth technology companies who were recognized for creating new market categories. Prior to joining Qumulo, Zaballos served as CMO of SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC), a publicly traded pioneer of cloud based retail supply chain platforms, where he helped double the company’s revenue.

“In my career, I have been most at home among a group of people with a vision to change an industry,” said Peter Zaballos, CMO at Qumulo. “Qumulo is the perfect combination of groundbreaking technology, a CEO, co-founders, and leadership team who share a vision for what’s possible, and the opportunity to create a new market category. The company is nothing but bold and ambitious, seeking to change the very nature of enterprise storage, and I look forward to what we can all make possible together.”

Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) is the world’s first universal-scale file storage system. It was designed from the ground up to meet all of today’s requirements for scale. QF2 runs in the data center and the public cloud, and can scale to billions of files. It handles small files as efficiently as large ones. QF2’s analytics let administrators drill down to the file level, get answers and solve problems in real-time. With QF2, enterprise customers have the freedom to store, manage and access their file-based data in any operating environment, at petabyte and global scale.

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About Qumulo
Qumulo is the leader in universal-scale file storage. Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) gives data-intensive businesses the freedom to store, manage and access file-based data in the data center and on the cloud, at petabyte and global scale. Founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, Qumulo serves the modern file storage and management needs of Global 2000 customers. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

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