Day: April 13, 2018

Skybox Security has appointed Gerry Sillars as the Vice President for Asia Pacific. In his role, Sillars will be the cor- nerstone of the company’s APAC operations, fo- cusing on the continued expansion of Skybox’s footprint in the entire region, as well as evolving the company’s channel business. Skybox experienced 433 percent year-over-year growth in APAC for 2017 – including 350 percent growth in India. Sil- lars will increase hiring in APAC to further sup- port the needs of customers and build on the company’s foundation of business. He will also focus on expanding regional distribution through resellers, system integrators and managed security service providers. Sillars has more than 15 years of experience building scalable software businesses in APAC, including such companies as Commvault Systems, Alcatel Lucent and UpGuard. As Commvault’s first employee in APAC, he established their business in the Australia/ New Zealand region prior to building businesses throughout Asia – driving significant double and triple digit growth during his tenure. In his last two years, he served as the Worldwide VP of Commvault’s Cloud Solutions Group where he built the Commvault Global Systems Integrator group in India and developed the regional business from the ground up. “I’m joining Skybox at an extremely exciting time. The Skybox platform serves a huge market need in this region, as there is a real thirst for solutions that simplify and automate day-to-day cybersecurity workflows and processes, especially as networks are increasing in size and getting more complex. Companies are quickly moving workloads to the cloud – or jumping to a cloud–first solution altogether. This is making the CISO’s job ever more challenging. They’re looking for a platform like Skybox that gives them a single view to their hybrid networks, and a way to easily manage and quickly address risk” – Gerry Sillars Vice President, Asia Pacific, Skybox  Skybox Security has also appointed Rahul Arora as the new Regional Sales Director for India and SAARC. Mr. Arora has a background in cloud networking that complements the company’s capabilities in virtual and multi-cloud environments. Prior to joining Skybox, Rahul worked with Citrix as the Director of Cloud Networking for India, running their Netscaler business in the region. Previous to that, he worked for SevOne Inc., as the Regional Director for India and SAARC where he built and ran Akamai’s Enterprise group in India.  

Hikvision was part of the recently held ELETS 2018, the 5th School Leadership Summit to showcase its innovative solutions for the education sector in Bengaluru. “Hikvision has been spearheading ‘School Security Program’ to focus on the education security issues, which can be addressed effectively through innovative security solutions. The School Leadership Summit is the perfect platform. Hikvision has a wide range of security solutions which specifically cater the education sector. We also explored newer opportunities like the broadcasting solution. Hikvision presents the vertical specific product basket to the education fraternity to promote the optimal usage of cameras and DVRs for a higher purpose and remote learning,” said Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision, “Hikvision’s smart solution for schools and campuses secures educational facilities with its advanced technology, powerful cameras, and critical recording devices.” Hikvision focused on promoting the broadcasting solution, which has a PTZ camera with a smart tracking option, which tracks the teacher during the lecture and zooms when the teachers writes something on the board. This feed can be streamed live to other classes in the building or even to any part of the world. It even records the whole lecture to be played or seen later by anyone anytime. Other Hikvision solution displayed at the event was face recognition solution. This was a one day conference and over 200 participants graced the event, the notable among them were Neti Srinivasan, COO, Ryan Group; Ms. Vandana Lulla, Director of the Podar Group of International Schools; Amol Arora, VC and MD, Shemrock and Shemford group of Schools, and others. The Hikvision stall at ELETS School Leadership Summit attracted a good number of Industry specific visitors, which included decision makers from the education institutions. The overall response was good as the event generated some relevant enquiries.