MILPITAS, CA., July 11, 2017 – ProphetStor Data Services, Inc., a leader in software-defined storage (SDS) and data services solutions, today announced further expansion into Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the opening of its headquarters in Versailles, France to drive localised sales and marketing efforts across two other subsidiaries in the UK and Germany.

“We’re excited to continue growing our global presence by establishing roots in Europe, where many leading industries are embracing new technologies to modernize their IT infrastructure,” said Eric Chen, CEO of ProphetStor. “ProphetStor is currently experiencing rapid growth in US and Asia; and with Guillaume Imberti’s leadership and 25 years’ experience in the enterprise data storage industry, we’re looking forward to similarly rapid growth in EMEA.

The new establishment will provide sales and pre-sales support, customer service and technical assistance to customers and partners.

ProphetStor SDS technology brings intelligence into the data center and cloud infrastructure, and provides orchestration, analytic, prediction, and resource automation capabilities that greatly enhance the efficiency of managing data centers.

“ProphetStor recognizes the importance of the EMEA marketplace,” said Guillaume Imberti, Executive Vice President and General Manager, ProphetStor EMEA. “Europe is full of enterprise and mid-market businesses that are eager to evaluate innovative data-driven, proven world-class solutions such as ProphetStor’s to meet their needs in the SDS market space. With offices on the ground, we’re looking forward to being able to work closely with our customers and partners to service their individual needs and grow together.”

Guillaume has over 25 years of experience as a global technology executive and senior management. Prior to joining ProphetStor, Guillaume served as VP and GM of EMEA at Cirrus Data Solutions. Before, he was the President and General Manager of FalconStor Software EMEA. Prior to FalconStor, Guillaume was Managing Director at Seagate Software (acquired by Veritas Software), Southern European Operations. Prior to that Guillaume served as Vice President of Cheyenne Software, Southern European Sales and Operations.