George Symons Joins Solix Technologies as Chief Strategy Officer

Nov 8, 2011 | Santa Clara, CA: Solix Technologies announces the addition of George Symons as Chief Strategy Officer. Symons will be responsible for short- and long-term planning as well as execution of strategic initiatives. He brings experience and leadership to this role with previous specialization in data storage and information lifecycle management.

“George brings a solid reputation for growth and innovation that gives our team, partners, and customers a dynamic and progressive outlook towards the future.” Sai Gundavelli, Founder and CEO of Solix Technologies.

Symons joins Solix from Xiotech Corporation where as COO he helped elevate the business from a mid-tier storage supplier to a high-performing enterprise level storage company. Symons previous experience also includes executive level management at Yosemite Technologies, EvoStor, EMC Corporation and Legato Systems. At EMC, Symons was CTO for Information Management driving the growth of their product lines around Information Life Cycle Management.

“Solix is a leading provider of Data Governance Platform serving a wide array of respected customers,” said George Symons. “I have been involved with Solix for the past 3 years as a board advisor and am excited to move into an active strategic role for a company with such great products which allows me the ability to further enhance an already enviable company.”

Symons holds bachelor degrees from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from UCLA.

About Solix Technologies

Solix Technologies, Inc., a leader in empowering data-driven enterprises, helps businesses organize their Enterprise Information with optimized infrastructure, data security and advanced analytics by achieving Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) goals. Solix Big Data Suite offers an ILM framework for Enterprise Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake applications with Apache Hadoop as an enterprise data repository. The Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) enables organizations to implement Database Archiving, Test Data Management (Data Subsetting), Data Masking and Application Retirement across all enterprise data. Solix Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and operates worldwide through an established network of value added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators. To learn more, please visit https://www.solix.com

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