Oussama El-Hilali Appointed Senior Vice President of Engineering at Carbonite

Oussama El-Hilali, a veteran in the field of data security, was appointed Senior Vice President of Engineering at Carbonite, one of the lead providers in backup solutions.

New products developed by the company will be overseen by El-Hilali, his experience in software development, information security and integrity being most welcome.

"Oussama brings a wealth of experience and proven success in data protection, which is at the core of Carbonite's business. We look forward to leveraging this expertise to lead our world-class engineering organization and ensure we continue to deliver on our commitment to secure online backup and recovery for our customers." said Carbonite's Chairman and CEO David Friend.

Previously a Vice-President of NetBackup Engineering at Symantec, El-Hilali planned, developed and released products designed to minimize data stores and simplify information management.

Symantec was not the only one to take benefit from his expertise. He also worked as a Director of Product Management for Veritas, where he was responsible with the enhancement of the company's data administration products.

He led the product coordination team for NetBackup while doing other related activities for the organization.

Other companies where he held important positions include Keane, Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur and Object Systems.

The former Symantec Vice-President is known in the security and backup world as being one of the best.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Mathematics obtained from Ripon College in Wisconsin. Then he received a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from the Saint Thomas Univeristy in Minnesota.

He is also known as being the co-author of the book "Digital Data Integrity: The Evolution from Passive Protection to Active Management."

On the other hand, Carbonite is known by more than 1 million subscribers in over 100 countries which rely on their services. With backup solutions running both on Windows and Mac platforms, the company has backed up more than 100 billion files, 200 million new files being backed up each day.