Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 30 | Page 10

NEWS Nutanix promotes sales veterans to senior sales leadership roles Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced it has promoted Keith Moran to Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Dave Gwyn to Worldwide Sales Chief Operating Officer. The role of Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas was previously held by Chris Kaddaras, who was promoted to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales in February of this year. The role of Worldwide Sales Chief Operating Officer is a new position. “Keith embodies the Nutanix principle of ‘obsess over the customer and frontline and is always focused on the long-term success of our customers. He’s built a highly collaborative team while creating an environment of candour and will be an extremely effective leader for the entire region,” said Chris Kaddaras, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Nutanix. “Dave’s deep technical expertise, unmatched operations, focus and superb sales leadership will play a critical role in the evolution of our global sales organisation. I’m delighted to have both join my leadership team.” Moran joined Nutanix almost six years ago as a Regional Sales Director, most recently serving as the Vice President of Sales for the Central Region. He has more than 20 years of technology sales experience, including leadership positions at NetApp and Simplivity. Regional SMEs to leverage the power of agile communications with Avaya IP Office subscription As global demand for easy-to-deploy communications solutions intensifies, Avaya Holdings Corp has made it easier than ever for regional small and medium-sized businesses to leverage the power of agile communications with the launch of Avaya IP Office Subscription. This new offer is now available from Avaya Partners in select countries in the Middle East and Africa. Coming at a time of increased remote working, necessitating the adoption of robust communications technologies, the launch creates a new, subscription-based way of consuming the leading all-in-one communications platform for companies with up to 3,000 users and which currently serves over 26 million users worldwide. Avaya IP Office delivers powerful communications in a simple package designed specifically for small and mediumsized businesses, which account for up to 90% of registered businesses in the Middle East and Africa. A single app provides voice, video, messaging and conferencing and keeps employees productive on any device from any location. Avaya Call Reporting is also an option to provide simple customer interaction management. Avaya IP Office subscription supports Avaya’s latest award-winning smart phones and devices and these can also be purchased with low monthly payments. For team collaboration, the cloud-based Avaya Spaces is also available in many areas. • 10