NetApp appoints Kaushal Veluri, Amit Didolkar

NEW DELHI: NetApp said that it has appointed Kaushal Veluri as Director of Channels & Alliances for India & SAARC and Amit Didolkar as Director Sales for NetApp India & SAARC.

”Both Kaushal and Amit are veterans with a rich and diverse experience across the IT industry and have joined at a time when NetApp has opened new spaces and expanded in India. It’s an exciting time for us in India and SAARC and I welcome them both on this journey," said Anil Valluri, President, NetApp India & SAARC.

Kaushal joins NetApp post an entrepreneurial stint running his own marketing consultancy firm – Kanso Consulting. In his current role, he will oversee channel strategy for NetApp in India and SAARC.

With over 23 years of experience in organizations like 3M, IBM, Oracle & Citrix, he is well known in the partner community, largely due to his relationships across resellers, regional/global system integrators, distributors and alliance partners.

Amit Didolkar joins NetApp as Director Sales, responsible for the overall go-to market strategy and sales operations in the enterprise segment for India and South Asia.

Amit has built an expertise in the data center technology space with stints at Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Sybase and Wipro. Prior to NetApp, he was leading South Asia sales at SimpliVity Corporation.

NetApp has been called out as a key player by IDC, specifically due to their Data Fabric strategy, which provides consistent and integrated services that deliver data visibility and insights, data access and control, and data protection and security.

NetApp is a leader in Flash technology, with the All-flash annualized net revenue run rate of $1.70 billion in Q4, up almost 140% y-o-y.