New Relic appoints ex-Dell CTO as Chief Architect for APJ

New Relic has appointed Peter Marelas as Chief Architect for Asia Pacific and Japan. Marelas will be responsible for empowering customers to establish and optimise Observability as a data-driven practice across every stage of the software development lifecycle.

By consulting with customers on people, process, policy and technology, he aims to help customers realise greater benefits from their Observability investments.

Marelas brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry. Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific Japan for Dell Technologies, Data Protection Solutions.

Prior to Dell he held senior roles at EMC, Telstra, Symantec, VERITAS Software and Storage Technologies. He is currently completing a Masters in Data Science and holds seven patents relating to data management, data storage, machine learning and cloud. 

“Peter will be instrumental in delivering our Observability solutions to help our customers bring new perspectives in delivering return on investment for their digital assets,” said Ben Goodman, SVP of New Relic Asia Pacific and Japan said.

“Driven by the pandemic, businesses are aggressively looking for ways to enhance their digital offerings. Observability offers real-time visibility across systems with powerful telemetry data, and the ability to correlate, contextualise and visualise the data for impactful business insights.”