EMC appoints head of global services in Australia and New Zealand

by Stan Beer

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

! Storage solutions provider EMC has announced what it calls a strategic initiative to grow its services business in Australia and New Zealand, with the appointment of Gary Cox as head of its global services unit. Most popular skills tags .NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML Cox has more than 25 years experience in the IT industry, working in Europe, USA, Asia Pacific, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He spent 14 years at Microsoft in a number of roles across a range of business areas. Cox began his IT career in the UK, where he worked for a software consulting firm before joining Oracle in the 1980s and moving to the US with the company in 1988. Cox joined Microsoft in 1992, where he worked as a divisional CIO and also ran the company’s Pacific Northwest operations. He subsequently held senior positions with Microsoft in Japan and Australia, where he was General Manager of Sales until 2006. Cox was most recently CEO for News Corporation subsidiary, True Local. Cox said EMC was now targeting the SMB market for expansion which results in EMC evolving its service offerings to ensure scale and reach. This will involve stronger alignment with partners and its Global Services division in the ANZ market. “I am delighted to join EMC at a time when organizations are seeking to extract more business value and productivity from their information assets,” said Cox. “I look forward to assisting companies across Australia and New Zealand to plan, build, manage, and support every stage of the information lifecycle. A key plank of our growth in our services business will stem from deeper relationships with our existing partners and also securing alliances with other providers in the enterprise technology market.” Tags See All Tags Careers  EMC  Management  People  Services  Stan Beer  Storage  Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now

 

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