"We are thrilled to have Mark with his strong sales leadership, deep local knowledge, close client and partner network join us as we build on our sales momentum into the growing SaaS market opportunities," said Commvault ANZ area vice president David Rajkovic.

"New Zealand is an important market for Commvault ANZ, and Mark's appointment reinforces our efforts to drive our market expansion with unrivalled customer experience and help partners and customers realise the power and benefits of Commvault SaaS-based solutions, wherever their data resides."

He added "I am confident that Mark will help us accelerate market growth and help customers simply complex data management with Commvault's broad and differentiated portfolio that will truly benefit our customers."

Raos brings more than 25 years of experience and proven sales leadership to Commvault.

He joins the company from Datacom, where he was a client director.

Raos previously worked in a similar role at Gen-i, as an account director at Red Rock Consulting, and in a range of sales, sales management, and business development positions at Oracle, Sun, IBM, Peoplesoft, Comdisco and SAP.

He holds a bachelor's degree in history and management, and a postgraduate diploma in IT, boh from the University of Auckland.

"I am excited to join Commvault with its award-winning intelligent data management solutions trusted by over 100,000 customers in their digital transformation and data journey to the cloud," said Raos.

"Not only did Commvault achieved a record quarter earnings performance, GigaOm recently named Commvault a 'Frontrunner' and 'Outperformer' in hybrid cloud data protection – these speak of a strong legacy of performance and proven innovative technology that make Commvault a recognised industry leader.

"I look forward to working with our partners to further support Commvault's success and growth in New Zealand."

He added "Equally critical is to deliver industry recognised data solutions for the benefits of our customers to simplify, manage and extract value from their increasingly complex and evolving data environment."