Backblaze, Inc. announced the appointment of Anuj Kumar as Chief Revenue Officer, Kumar brings more than two decades of experience scaling cloud revenue organizations at enterprise infrastructure companies, most notably driving NetApp's worldwide cloud business during a period of significant growth. He joins Backblaze as Backblaze advances its go-to-market transformation and AI adoption drives a new phase of infrastructure demand. Kumar joins as Backblaze pursues two parallel AI growth vectors: one on the supply side and one on the demand side.
On the supply side, the company serves neocloud GPU providers?an estimated $14 billion storage opportunity by 2030?as the storage backbone for their platforms. Prior to Backblaze, Kumar served as SVP and General Manager for North America at SUSE, and previously as Chief Revenue Officer at HUMAN Security. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales and go-to-market leadership roles at NetApp, VMware, Rackspace, Verisign and Red Hat, living and working across three continents and thirteen cities globally. Kumar holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from BIT Mesra.
Backblaze, Inc. is a cloud storage company. The Company's two cloud services that it offers on its Storage Cloud are: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Backblaze Computer Backup. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. The amount of data stored in this cloud service can scale up and down as needed on a pay-as-you-go basis, or can be paid for on a capacity basis or committed contract for greater predictability. This Infrastructure-as-a-Service enables use cases including backups, multi-cloud, application storage, ransomware protection, and storage for artificial intelligence/machine learning workflows. Backblaze Computer Backup automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals. This service is offered as a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access.
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