2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Docker, Infrastructure, Architecture, automation

Shekar Ayyar spent the last four of his 14 years at VMware building out its telecommunications and edge business at a time when the company’s focus was on data center and cloud infrastructure. That experience will be key to Ayyar as he takes over the CEO position at Arrcus, a well-funded edge network software startup that is working to make a name for itself in the expanding multicloud arena. But even as enterprise adoption of multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies continues to rise, he sees the future being at the network and compute edge.

Arrcus is putting a keen focus on the edge and will use its Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE), which was unveiled along with the hiring of Ayyar, as the foundation of its strategy.

Ayyar said some of that money will go to building out the company’s channel, enabling it to expand the reach of its offerings.