Darren Gross Appointed Director EMEA Channels at Tintri

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - July 25, 2016) - Tintri, a leading producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualisation and cloud environments, today announced the appointment of Darren Gross as Director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Channels. Gross is tasked with extending relationships with current partners and growing Tintri's profile and market share in the region.

Gross is an experienced industry veteran, with more than 20 years of experience in the channel and IT. His previous roles include EMC, Centrify and Legato Systems working in several channel, business and partner management roles. At Tintri, Gross will be responsible for leading a team based throughout Europe that manages key partners and helps them successfully grow Tintri customer bases.

"Tintri offers game-changing technology in the virtualisation and cloud space. I'm looking forward to working with partners to jointly grow their Tintri business," said Gross. "My team has the domain expertise and channel experience to create new opportunities for Tintri's channel partners across EMEA."

In April this year, Tintri announced the expansion of its Global Partner Program to help its partners grow VAS sales with access to more solutions, training, enablement and incentives. As part of this programme update, Tintri established new tiers, added more incentives for partners and expanded training and enablement resources.

Eric Berry, VP Global Channels at Tintri, commented: "Darren joins Tintri at an exciting time-we have a strong partner network across EMEA and growing demand for VM-aware storage. His channel experience and relationships will be a huge asset to both Tintri and our partners across the region."

For more information about Tintri's new Global Partner Program and/or to become a Tintri Partner, please visit: https://www.tintri.com/content/partner-benefits

Additional Resources

• Read the Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays
• Get the Tintri VMstore™ T5000 Series datasheet
• Get the Tintri VMstore™ T800 Series datasheet
• Follow Tintri on Twitter
• Follow Tintri on LinkedIn

About Tintri

Tintri builds smart storage that sees, learns and adapts, enabling IT organisations to focus on virtualised applications and business services instead of managing storage infrastructure. Tintri VM-aware storage eliminates planning and complex troubleshooting by providing VM-level visibility, control, insight and agility. Tintri powers hundreds of thousands of virtual machines running business critical databases, enterprise apps, desktops and mobile apps, and private cloud deployments. Tintri helps global enterprises such as AMD, Chevron, F5 Networks, NEC, NTT, MillerCoors and Time Warner maximise their virtualisation and cloud investments. For more information, visit www.tintri.com and follow us on Twitter: @Tintri.