San Antonia-based business data backup and recovery company Jungle Disk announced Wednesday the appointment of Nathan Anderson as its new chief technology officer.
Anderson most recently served as vice president of DevOps engineering for Chargify, a local billing and subscription management platform geared to business-to-business software-and-a-service companies. His focus was developing the company's financial technology.
Prior to that, he worked as director of software engineering and DevOps for ClearDATA, a health care cloud hosting company. In addition, he spent 15 years at Rackspace as engineering manager and director of product management.
Bret Piatt, Jungle Disk CEO, said that Anderson's experience in cyber risk and software security would be an asset to the company, as would his breadth of experience working in markets ranging from financial technology to public cloud to health care.
"He's ensured clouds are locked down, services are performing at peak, compliance is met, and most important, data is secure and uptime ensured," Piatt said.
Anderson said with the cyber-threat landscape growing and companies of all sizes targeted, he looks forward to being a part of Jungle Disk's expansion plans for protecting businesses.
The news comes on the heels of other Jungle Disk announcements. Several months ago, the company acquired backup and disaster recovery businesses KeepItSafe, LiveVault and OffsiteDataSync. It also recently unveiled its plan for a new and more sustainable solar-powered headquarters located in Southtown, which Piatt aims to move into by the end of the year.
Jungle Disk, founded in Atlanta in 2006, was acquired by Rackspace Technology in 2009 and moved headquarters to San Antonio the following year. It later was acquired by Porthcrawl Holdings in 2016. Rackspace has no ownership stake in Jungle Disk.
It serves tens of thousands of customers with 20 data centers in North America and Europe.
