Data systems firm Pliops has appointed semiconductor industry veteran Ido Bukspan as its new CEO. He hails from NVIDIA, where he most recently served as SVP of chip design.
He will lead Pliops’ current momentum to increase growth and expansion into additional markets. Pliops co-founder and former CEO, Uri Beitler, will become chief strategy and business development officer, where he will focus on developing strategic partnerships and creating new business opportunities.
Pliops bills itself as the "GPU of storage", with its Extreme Data Processors (XDPs). It is already in partnership with Western Digital to develop solutions, and customers include a “US top five Saas provider”, hyperscale cloud service providers, and social media companies, all of whom use Pliops' chips and cards in their data centres.
The firm maintains it wants to become a "mini Arm", supplying its technology to everybody, anywhere. To help do this it already has a relationship with TD Synnex, and now says it is developing a "price per instance” offering, that would work in a similar way to HPE's Greenlake on-demand service, and which could be sold by MSPs.
