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Mike Palmer Joins Seagate As Cloud Solutions Head

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Seagate has appointed Mike Palmer as senior vice president and general manager of Cloud Solutions, reporting to Seagate president Jamie Lerner. In his role leading Cloud Solutions, Mr. Palmer is responsible for the Seagate public, private and hybrid cloud offerings. He is leading efforts for the creation, delivery and support of these solutions for Seagate’s managed service provider and cloud service provider partners.

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