Nir Peleg

Foreseeing the major shifts in the IT industry around cloud computing, Nir founded Ionir and architected its groundbreaking technology. He is responsible for the company’s strategic technology roadmap and intellectual property management. Prior to Ionir, Nir founded Reduxio and led the transition of its technology from Reduxio’s appliance-based product to Ionir’s software defined cloud native storage. With over 30 years of industry experience, Nir was CTO and co-founder at Montilio, an innovative file server acceleration company, and founder, EVP R&D and CTO at Exanet, which built one of the world’s first distributed NAS systems. Nir was the first employee and chief architect of Digital Appliance, Larry Ellison’s massively parallel computing venture that eventually became Pillar Data Systems (acquired by Oracle). Nir holds over 20 U.S. patents and patents-pending in the areas of computing, distributed storage, data deduplication and encryption.