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Gridstore Hires Axcient Veteran Chris Sterbenc to Drive Channel Sales

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http://www.thevarguy.com – Former Axcient VP Chris Sterbenc has joined Gridstore as VP of sales, where he will drive channel expansion and report directly to CEO Kelly Murphy. After focusing on MSP- and VAR-centric cloud disaster recovery for the past few years, Sterbenc now focuses his attention on software-defined storage, a growing market that emerged from grid computing — the precursor to cloud computing. The term Grid Computing was popularized around 2005 as Oracle and other big technology companies explained elastic, scalable, on-demand compute services to end-customers, both on and off premises. Gradually, (IT news)

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