ITWire

"Scott has an invaluable combination of strong vision, leadership, product strategy and business development skill with an unsurpassed understanding of the cloud and virtualisation market landscape," said Alex Pinchev, Acronis president and CEO.

"His proven ability to deliver results in competitive markets makes Scott the perfect candidate to extend Acronis' reach into the enterprise and leverage the technologies we've gained through our recent acquisition of GroupLogic."

Mr Crenshaw joins Acronis from Red Hat where he served as vice president and general manager of its cloud business unit, and previously led the company's Enterprise Linux business unit for six years.

He has also held a number of executive positions at technology companies including chief executive officer at security technology company NTRU and vice president of product development at enterprise software vendor Datawatch.

Mr Crenshaw was a Sloan Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds an MBA from MIT and a bachelor degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.