Data Storage Corporation announced that Kristi Cates has joined as Director of Marketing and Ed Grossman has joined as Data Analytics Practice Leader. Ms. Cates will be focused on building go-to-market plans, developing strategic marketing programs and campaigns. She will also work closely with the Company’s partnership alliances to fully utilize comarketing program offerings. Ms. Cates is an accomplished demand generation and channel marketing leader with significant communications and global marketing experience in hi-tech software and customer relationship management. Before joining the Company, she helped establish the Partner Marketing program in North America for Buildxact. Previously, Ms. Cates led IBM’s North America Partner Marketing ecosystem team and held various marketing and event roles over the course of her 23-year career at IBM. Ms. Cates attended Texas A&M university and holds several certifications, including digital forensics and cyber security. Mr. Grossman will be responsible for guiding the Company’s data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics initiatives. Mr. Grossman brings more than 30 years of experience as a software developer, software architect, and technical leader across multiple disciplines. He has a history of working in leading edge technologies and brings extensive experience advising enterprises on digital transformation. His skills include AI and analytics, IBM Blockchain/Hyperledger, cloud applications, mobile applications, and agile methodologies. Before joining the Company, Mr. Grossman led IBM teams enabling business partners worldwide with leading edge technologies such as Data Science, AI, and Blockchain. Prior to IBM, he held technical leadership roles at several small companies, was a research programmer with several universities, and served with standards organizations.
Data Storage Corporation is a provider of diverse business continuity solutions for disaster-recovery, cloud infrastructure, cyber-security, and information technology services. The Company's cyber security solutions include ezSecurity, which offers security solutions for endpoint security, system assessments, risk analysis, and IBM system protection, including Ransomware defense. Its data protection and recovery solutions include ezVault for offsite data protection; ezRecovery for fast data recovery; ezAvailability for real-time data replication with minimal recovery objectives, and ezMirror for data mirroring at the storage level. Its cloud hosted production systems include ezHost, which delivers managed cloud services. Its voice and data solutions provide voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), Internet access, and data transport solutions, including dedicated Internet services, SD-WAN options, and a cloud-based PBX solution integrated with Microsoft Teams for business continuity.