Information infrastructure solutions provider, EMC announced the appointment of Alok Tandon as Director, Channels and Strategic Alliances in EMC India and the SAARC region. Alok will report to Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India & SAARC.

Commenting on the appointment, Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India & SAARC, said, “EMC’s partner relationships have been extremely critical in ensuring our success in India. With our customers’ information infrastructure becoming increasingly complexity, as well as new growth opportunities in virtualization and cloud computing, it is ever important we invest in a strong leadership team to enable our partners to address these opportunities.”

“We are happy to have Alok to lead our channel strategy. His deep channel industry experience provides a strong complement to our executive leadership team,” he added.

Alok joins EMC from Oracle, where he was Director, Education Business.