Ninefold accelerates national expansion

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:20

Australian cloud computing and public storage company, Ninefold, is expanding its team, already tripled in size, for next year to support what it says is demand from specific vertical and geographical markets and anticipated growth over the next 12 months.

Ninefold managing director, Peter James, said today, the company had expanded its National Advocate Program and appointed new advocates in Brisbane and Adelaide to complement the national team.

'Our pace hasn't slowed as we near Christmas, with continued growth high on the agenda for 2012,' James said. 'Quiet for one company is the peak season for another - for example, online retailers and e-commerce companies are taking advantage of our PAYG compute to scale as they need during this holiday period. Furthermore, our cloud proposition is attracting the interest of specific verticals and we're actively building on that.'

'Consequently, to support this and communicate the benefits of 'no hassle cloud', we're taking a smart approach by engaging great communicators to become our Advocates, supporting customers and user enquiries around the country independently in the field,' James added.

James said the company's National Advocate Program was now an established community of independent technology, entrepreneurial and web professionals around the country, which aimed to 'educate interested parties about cloud computing and storage, its benefits and the Ninefold proposition.'  'The specialists currently range from university students to biotechnology experts, and from developers to entrepreneurs.' 

James encouraged advocates with information brokering, digital, media and telecommunications, scientific and technical services, design, manufacturing or financial expertise to join the program to support strong interest from businesses in those verticals.

Ninefold is also recruiting for cloud-forward technical professionals to join its team at its Sydney headquarters, and James said that in the last twelve months, the team had more than tripled in size as the company and aimed for further growth in 2012.