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Leadership Team

Chris Carr, CEO

Chris Carr brings more than two decades of optical solutions experience to Alliance Storage Technologies, including leadership at Phillips LMS (later Plasmon). An established visionary and entrepreneur, Carr founded Alliance Storage Technologies over 13 years ago, specializing in selling new and refurbished archive solutions, optical libraries, disc drives, parts, accessories and maintenance services for the industry’s leading manufacturers including Hewlett Packard (HP), IBM, and Sony. Building on the company’s initial success, Carr expanded Alliance in 2009, with the acquisition of Plasmon’s assets – catapulting the business into the archiving industry leader it is today. As CEO, Carr oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Alliance’s operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation and customers.

Tim Summers, Vice President of Product Development

Tim Summers brings a highly successful track record in building high-growth technology companies, with a deep understanding of technical aspects, as well as customer-facing issues, to Alliance Storage Technologies. For over 20 years, Summers has focused on data storage and archiving product development, including enterprise archiving, tiered storage archiving appliances, and enterprise level archive / tiered storage software. Prior to Alliance, Summers served as Senior Vice President of Product Development for Metalogix Software, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Plasmon, and Senior Vice President at Softek Storage Solutions. During his tenure at these organizations, he was responsible for driving large geographically dispersed organizations across a variety of IT disciplines, with an emphasis on systems-oriented product lines in the storage management and storage performance markets. His expertise also includes growing smaller early stage ventures and transitioning for success through acquisition.

Fran Rogers, Administrative Director

Fran Rogers joined Alliance Storage Technologies in 2003, with more than 10 years management experience in the archiving industry.  Rogers brings extensive expertise in compliance, customer service, operations and finance. Prior to Alliance, Rogers spent 10 years in roles of increasing responsibility, advancing her to the current role today of Administrative Director overseeing Alliance’s legal, finance, customer support and personnel. Rogers is instrumental in overseeing the day-to-day administrative operations and ensuring execution of Alliance’s business objectives across all divisions.

About Alliance Storage Technologies

Alliance Storage Technologies is the leading provider of optical, cloud and hybrid data archiving solutions. With over 20 years of domain expertise, Alliance has led the industry in the advancement of optical storage technology. Today, its solutions are the most widely deployed around the globe, with over 17,000 field-proven implementations across business critical environments and highly regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, security and surveillance, multi-media and the public sector.

Recognizing that organizations should not have to choose between compliance, performance and efficiency, Alliance’s solutions are designed from the ground up to archive, manage, optimize, and secure critical information on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid environments to meet the demands of today’s exponential data growth and long-term retention requirements.

Known for its commitment to providing every account with exceptional service, from first contact through the life of the relationship, Alliance has earned an exemplary customer service reputation with 24 x 7 global support and a worldwide authorized service provider network.

Technology and Innovation 

Alliance has led the market in creating solutions that keep customers ahead of the curve while driving higher performance, greater efficiency and stringent security to minimize risk and exposure.

For organizations that demand an adaptive, modular, unalterable and compliant information archive for decades upon decades to come, the Alliance Archive Management Software (AMS) Platform delivers a flexible, cost-efficient, highly optimized storage solution that secures and ensures data retention and business continuity, from the departmental level to the enterprise. AMS manages the entire data lifecycle on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid-cloud configuration with single pane of glass management, providing the flexibility, scalability and ease that dynamic organizations require to support rapidly growing data volumes and changing business requirements.

Built on the AMS platform, the NETArchive flagship product provides a flexible and modular architecture consisting of high performance disk, cloud and optical tiers. Today, more that 80% of enterprise data is static content sitting on expensive, Tier 1 storage. NETArchive enables organizations to move this data and free up critical primary storage to increase performance and dramatically reduce costs.

With support for on-premises installations and cloud-based deployments in the Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, NETArchive delivers elastic scalability with simplified, cross-platform management and unrivaled control.

Competitive Advantage

Alliance has two decades innovating the technologies that have evolved the storage industry. Unlike any other solution on the market, Alliance’s AMS platform enhances business data retention with game-changing archiving flexibility, performance and cost efficiency, so organizations can retain data without the compromises faced with alternate tape and disk technologies.

With modular and scalable solutions designed specifically for high performance, adaptability and compliance—Alliance solutions are future-proofed for decades, not years. The AMS Platform and NETArchive lead the industry in helping customers archive, manage, optimize and secure critical information assets.

Alliance continues to enhance and perfect its visionary long-term archiving solutions based on continuously evolving real-world customer requirements. That is why it remains the #1 most trusted solution, in business critical environments to those in most highly regulated industries, to ensure authenticity and security to meet the most stringent requirements on-premises, into the cloud and back again.