Nutanix has appointed Dom Poloniecki as general manager for its Western Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa region, as it steps up its cloud services business. Poloniecki will be responsible for all sales and customer delivery activities within the region at the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) specialist.
Poloniecki joins Nutanix after a 17-year career at IBM. For the last six years he was responsible for leading and transforming the company's software and software-as-a-services businesses in the UK and Ireland, latterly as vice president of cloud software. Poloniecki commenced his professional career at Morgan Stanley as an analyst in the company's M&A practice, and gained his first experience of technology sales in the financial services sector, selling scalable systems and virtualisation software.
Sammy Zoghlami, senior vice president of sales for EMEA, said: “Dom's extensive experience in cloud services and enterprise sales not only fits the Nutanix market position perfectly, but also our future ambitions. Most importantly, Dom is recognised as a leader with a strong reputation for developing the people working for him.”
Earlier this year, data management vendor Veeam launched a new product in partnership with Nutanix. While remaining a pure software firm it wants to make sure that it is part of the box makers' plans when it comes to cloud interconnectivity.
It's a path that is being followed by more established rivals. At its Partner Executive Forum in Madrid in May, NetApp put great emphasis on how its developing HCI offering is seeking tighter integration with hybrid clouds, as on-premise data management practitioners dip their toe into the cloud to take advantage of greater flexibility when it comes to data operations.
