Sysdig has a new leader for South East Asia and India. Sunil Sapra has joined the cloud-native intelligence company’s operations for the region.
Sapra has been appointed as the managing director of Southeast Asia and India at Sysdig in January 2019, confirmed the company’s official statement, exclusively to IDG India.
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Sysdig Growth Numbers In 2018 |
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Tripled the number of Fortune 500 customer deployments |
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40 percent plus of above deployments use Sysdig platform for both security and visibility use cases – up from 5 percent this time last year. |
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Nearly doubled the global employee count and grew to over 30 locations worldwide |
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Downloads of Sysdig Falco, open source container runtime security offering grew six times over in 2018. |
Downloads of Falco, Sysdig’s open source container runtime security offering which is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox project, grew six times over in 2018, as per the statement. Sapra has joined Sysdig to continue this growth in Southeast Asia and India.
Prior to joining Sysdig, Sapra was vice president and managing director of Seclore Asia. He has over 24 years of experience in launching and growing new technologies in the region. Sapra has also worked with companies like Astaro, WatchGuard, Hitachi Data Systems and Veritas in sales leadership roles.
Organizations today require new solutions to manage and secure their containerized infrastructure. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners in Southeast Asia and India and throughout the world to meet the growing customer demand for modern approaches to securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting next generation IT environments. We are happy to have Sunil on the team.
Suresh Vasudevan
As a cloud-native intelligence company, Sysdig is seeing unprecedented acceleration of global enterprise adoption of the Sysdig cloud-native Intelligence platform that improves container security and visibility.
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“We already have some prominent banks and cloud native enterprises in SEA and India that are using Sysdig solutions. Sysdig has introduced a unique approach that transforms the way enterprises manage and secure their cloud-native applications. I’m honored to help meet the demand for Sysdig in this region.” |
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Sunil Sapra, MD, Southeast Asia and India, Sysdig |
Sapra’s appointment will add impetus to company’s SEA and India operations. “Organizations today require new solutions to manage and secure their containerized infrastructure,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO, Sysdig.
“We look forward to continuing to work with our partners in Southeast Asia and India and throughout the world to meet the growing customer demand for modern approaches to securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting next generation IT environments. We are happy to have Sapra on the team,” he added.
Suresh Vasudevan has served as the chief executive officer at Sysdig since April 2018. Prior to joining Sysdig, Suresh was the president and CEO of Nimble Storage.
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Sunil Sapra’s top priorities at Sysdig |
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Continue listening to the customers and focusing on their need. |
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Work with skilled and committed partners to provide support to the enterprises in their digital journey. |
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Evangelize and help accelerate the adoption of containerization and micro services. |
Sysdig is focused on continuing to support Southeast Asian and Indian enterprises, such as banks, large e-commerce players, and software development powerhouses, who continue to transit to containerize services according to Sapra.
“We already have some prominent banks and cloud native enterprises in SEA and India using Sysdig solutions. Sysdig has introduced a unique approach that is transforming the way enterprises manage and secure their cloud-native applications, and I am honored to help meet the demand for Sysdig in this region”, Sapra said.
In 2018, Sysdig tripled the number of Fortune 500 customer deployments, with over 40 percent of deployments using the Sysdig platform for both security and visibility use cases – up from five percent this time last year. We also nearly doubled our global employee count and grew to over 30 locations worldwide said the company statement.
