An outspoken advocate for developers, McNealy will provide strategic counsel on continued expansion into the enterprise
Mountain View, January 9, 2018—Redis, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced that industry veteran Scott McNealy has joined the company’s advisory board. McNealy, a Silicon Valley legend, served as co-founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems for more than 20 years, one of the longest tenures in industry history. He currently serves as the Chairman of Wayin, a social media startup McNealy founded.
“We’re living in a time where customer experience means everything; your brand’s survival is contingent on whether or not you can meet the expectations of your customer. Response time, reliability and scalability are critical technology underpinnings that determine whether or not your company will survive against the competition,” said Scott McNealy, advisory board member of Redis. “Redis solves that problem, quite simply, while offering unprecedented flexibility to developers and support for a variety of applications. In fact, I see many similarities between what we created at Sun years ago – an open platform for the community – and what Redis brings to the table. The company is in an incredible position for aggressive growth, and I’m honored to lend my support as we look towards an even brighter future ahead.”
McNealy brings his unique expertise to Redis. Under his leadership, Sun Microsystems released Java, still one of the most popular programming languages today, and a critical contribution to the open source community. As an advisor, McNealy will influence Redis’ strategy and help the company with its continued advancement of enterprise technology and customer adoption.
“Scott McNealy is well versed in Silicon Valley’s technology cycles and brings valuable perspective on enterprise and open source software,” said Ofer Bengal, CEO and co-founder at Redis. “Redis is poised to gain massive adoption as applications adapt to the computing shifts enabled by new memory technologies. We look forward to applying Scott’s seasoned viewpoint to the mega trends that are shaping the next generation of applications.”
Data is the lifeline of every business, and Redis helps organizations reimagine how fast they can process, analyze, make predictions, and take action on the data they generate. Redis provides a competitive edge to any business by delivering open source and enterprise-grade data platforms to power applications that drive real-time experiences at any scale. Developers rely on Redis to build performance, scalability, reliability, and security into their applications.
Born in the cloud-native era, Redis uniquely enables users to unify data across multi-cloud, hybrid and global applications to maximize business potential. Learn how Redis can give you this edge at redis.com.
