Leading MySQL replacement scale-out database provider Clustrix announced its commitment to the Korean market with the opening of its Seoul office and the hiring of Eun-Chul Lee as country manager of Korea and Jin Lim as vice president of technology.
Lim brings more than 17 years of R&D experience in scale-out database, storage infrastructure, and information sharing applications to Clustrix. Most recently he led a sought-after R&D team with Samsung Electronics, and prior to that he held positions at Couchbase, Oracle, and EMC.
Lee joins Clustrix from Treasure Data, where he established the company as a top brand in the data analysis market. Previously, he was chief executive officer of DAS, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) module company, Intelra Inc., where he worked with companies such as KT, Softbank, and Qualcomm.
“The Korean and APAC markets are rich with the SaaS, ad tech, ecommerce, social, and gaming applications at which our distributed database excels with its ability to process millions of transactions a second,” said Mike Azevedo, chief executive officer of Clustrix. “We are seeing huge growth for Clustrix in these markets, so it was important to bring on a strong team with prior success in the Korean market.”