Hyd-based CtrlS appoints new CTO

Hyderabad: CtrlS Datacenters Limited, a city-based hyperscale datacenter provider, on Wednesday said it has appointed Ashish Ahuja as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

After taking charge, he will look intoglobal expansion, network strategy and initiate development of new products. Prior to CtrlS, Ahuja was the Director of Global Network Infrastructure at Google and also held leadership roles at France Telecom and Tata Communications.

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, said, "Being one of the pioneers of Google's 'Global Network Infrastructure' group, he holds the credentials of leading various global strategic initiatives and partnerships to build a state-of-the-art network across various continents. Hence, as CTO for CtrlS datacenters, we are assured that Ahuja will drive our global expansion plans, network strategy and new product development initiatives."

An industry veteran with subject matter expertise in networks, interconnect, datacenters, undersea cable systems and IaaS, Ashish Ahuja said, "I am excited to join the CtrlS family, when the company is drawing aggressive global expansion plans."