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Ashesh Koul Gets Additional Role as CTO with Gather Network's Expansion in India

Ashesh Koul Gets Additional Role as CTO with Gather Network’s Expansion in India

Gather Network, Dubai based Web3.0 and blockchain content monetisation platform recently announced their expansion plan for India operations with additional responsibilities assigned to their Chief Technology Officer, Ashesh Koul. In his new role he will manage the company’s growth in the South Asian market and will also lead a team of 40 employees.

Being a dedicated technologist at Gather Network for over four years, Ashesh has a keen understanding of both the business as well as consumer needs. Therefore, his skills and experience will also be responsible for creating a Web3 powerhouse for leading business strategy, tech consulting and also building blockchain capabilities.

With core competencies in Business Strategy, Tech Consulting & Software Development, his role has been instrumental in leading global teams and owning end to end wide range of business functions & technology solutions. He comes with 18 years of experience in the technology industry, having led large teams of more than 200 engineers as well as working hands-on in Fortune 500 enterprises and technology start-ups. Ashesh has a strong technical background in mobile, middleware, automation, and big data, and recently applied for a patent as well.

Gather Networks intends to significantly increase its workforce in India with its new Indian operation headquarters that recently opened its doors in Gurugram, NewDelhi.

Commenting on his new role, Ashesh Koul, CTO, Gather Network shares: “I am really excited to contribute to Gather Network’s vision of expanding across the South-East Asia region. The company’s journey in South Asia over the last few months has been both enriching and exhilarating and I look forward to applying what I’ve learned in the current role in the enhanced profile. From the perspective of our clients and talent, there are tremendous opportunities to create interesting synergies across geographies. I am really grateful to Gather Network for this opportunity and their trust in me”.

Reggie Raghav Jerath, CEO & Founder, Gather Network commented, “I’m overjoyed to have Ashesh lead the growth and operations in the region. We intend to capitalize on his knowledge and experience as one of our core members from the last four years to achieve even greater momentum in the Blockchain and Crypto space. To that end, we intend to pursue specific organic and inorganic growth strategies while continuing to invest in innovation. We believe that Ashesh’s experience and strong financial acumen will play a vital role in driving these initiatives and maximizing value for our clients and stakeholders in the South Asian market.”

Gather has various products that help in enabling monetisation for content creators such as Gather Online, where web and mobile developers can monetise from the end-user processing power with their express permission, Gather Enterprise, which is a consultancy service providing solutions for business on tokenization, and Gather Cloud, a decentralized cloud services providing businesses with the processing power that keeps the cost of cloud computing in check with the use of their own existing devices.

Pure Storage Partners with Meta on AI Research SuperCluster (RSC)

Mumbai, January 25, 2022: Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage-as-a-service, today announced its role in Meta’s new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which Meta believes will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world.

Announced today, RSC is helping Meta’s AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, work across hundreds of different languages, seamlessly analyze text, images, and video together, develop new augmented reality tools, and much more. RSC will pave the way toward building technologies for Meta’s next major computing platform, the metaverse, where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role.

Meta chose Pure as it needed a storage partner that can deliver robust and scalable storage capabilities to power RSC. With FlashArrayTM and FlashBlade®, RSC will have the unparalleled performance to rapidly analyze both structured and unstructured data, underpinned by Pure’s foundation of simplicity, reliability, and sustainability.

Pure is a long-time technology provider for Meta, helping to design the first generation of Meta’s AI research infrastructure in 2017. Since then, Meta has continued to partner with Pure, and RSC is the latest example of how Pure is helping Meta achieve its AI research goals.

“The technologies powering the metaverse will require massively powerful computing solutions capable of instantly analyzing ever-increasing amounts of data. Meta’s RSC is a breakthrough in supercomputing that will lead to new technologies and customer experiences enabled by AI. We are thrilled to be a part of this project and look forward to seeing the progress Meta’s AI researchers will make.” – Rob Lee, CTO, Pure Storage

Pure’s portfolio enables large-scale AI workloads with high-performance, architecturally optimized solutions within the smallest and most environmentally friendly footprint, letting customers process massive amounts of data from structured and unstructured sources with speed, reliability, and efficiency. Solutions leveraged by Meta’s RSC include:

  • FlashArray//C is a high-capacity, enterprise-ready platform that delivers hyper-consolidation, proven six-nines of availability, and consistent single-millisecond latency for the most demanding environments. Its unique QLC-based architecture allows the array to fulfil the strict performance, power, density, and space requirements of the RSC environment.
  • FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced all-flash storage solution for consolidating fast file and object data. It brings a massively parallel platform capable of delivering ultra-fast performance to billions of objects and files.