Isilon ANZ appointment to drive market expansion effort

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 01 October 2009 20:09

IT People - People

Scale-out NAS vendor, Isilon Systems, has appointed a technical director for its Australia and New Zealand business with a brief to find partners and more customers in the local market for its virtualization and media/entertainment solutions business.

Isilon has appointed Gary Donin to the position. Based in Sydney, Donin reports directly to the company’s senior vice president, worldwide field operations. Donin joined Isilon in late-2008, and was previously in a roving support role for the company the Asia Pacific region.
 
According to a company spokesman, the new appointment is a reflection of Isilon’s “strengthened focus on the Australian and New Zealand markets,” with Donin to assume responsibility for all marketing and pre-sales activity in these markets, together with support for all installed Isilon customer sites.
 
The spokesman said that “with the success of Isilon in the virtualization and media/entertainment solutions, Donin will be working on finding partners and customers in ANZ.”

Before joining Isilon, Donin specialised in delivering storage, visualization, animation, graphics workstation, 3D technology and multimedia solutions to broadcasting, research, post production, oil & gas, and education organisations, as well as to government and the defence sectors.

Donin, who has a bachelor of engineering degree (electronics & computers) from The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, worked for five years with the Australian arm of Sun Microsystems as a system engineer.