BOSTON & SYDNEY -- Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, has appointed Andre Carpenter as the managing director of its Australia and New Zealand business as the company continues to rapidly expand in the region to accommodate the growing need for affordable, secure and high-performance cloud storage. Andre will lead Wasabi operations in ANZ, overseeing the company’s growing partner and customer footprint and help Wasabi expand its cloud storage offerings to more organizations on their digital transformation journeys.

“I am thrilled to join Wasabi Technologies and be a part of a team of passionate cloud storage experts in the ANZ region,” said Carpenter. “Customers are increasingly dealing with unprecedented storage growth in their environments and the unpredictable costs associated with this. Wasabi is best positioned to address these challenges. With Wasabi’s channel-first go-to-market strategy, we will work with partners to help customers leverage the power of Wasabi hot cloud storage to secure and store their data.”

Cloud storage adoption is growing in Australia, with 89% of Australian organizations expecting to increase the amount of data they store in the public cloud in 2024, according to the APAC Wasabi Cloud Storage Index. Wasabi hot cloud storage is being implemented across ANZ as organizations transition to the cloud with customers in sectors like higher education including Charles Darwin University and James Cook University, and local government services like Hauraki District Council.

Andre has more than 15 years of experience in IT sales, channel sales, and leadership roles throughout the Asia Pacific region. Most recently, Andre was the APAC director of cloud solutions at Crayon, a global technology and digital transformation service company. In addition, Andre has also held leadership roles across sales and consulting for global technology companies including Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp, Oracle and Veeam.