Cohesity appoints Peter Hanna as head of channels for APJ

Data management and security company Cohesity has appointed Peter Hanna as the head of channels for Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) region. Hanna will be based in Australia and lead the company’s channel sales and partner engagement with focus on Cohesity’s AI-powered solutions. 

Hanna has over two decades of experience in strategic sales experience, working with leading information and communication technology (ICT) companies such as VMware and Dell EMC. Hanna has strong expertise in developing and optimising go-to-market strategies throughout the Asia Pacific, Japan, India, and Greater China region, the company statement said. His last held role was in the head of global customers (APJ and Greater China) where he worked with VMware’s customers on technology-led business transformation and reduce cyber risk.

“Every organisation in the Asia-Pacific & Japan region faces the challenge of securing their data in a worsening cyber threat landscape and being able to recover rapidly if they fall victim to a cyberattack. Cyber resilience is vital to answering this challenge and is only made possible by modern data security, management, and recovery capabilities,” said Sanjay Rohatgi, Group Vice President, Cohesity Asia-Pacific & Japan. “I am delighted to welcome Peter to Cohesity’s Asia-Pacific & Japan business, where he will be crucial to supercharging our partner community and engagement. We highly value our partners throughout the region and look forward to driving growth together, as we begin a new calendar year and the second half of fiscal 2024.” 

To be sure, in November, Cohesity announced the launch of SmartFiles on the Snowflake Data Cloud.  Cohesity SmartFiles is an enterprise-class, software-defined, data-centric, multiprotocol file and object solution for the enterprise that transcend. This integration allows businesses to analyse their on-premises and cloud data while maintaining data sovereignty and meeting compliance requirements.