As vice president of APJ sales he will optimise the sales organisation and channel partners for new business opportunities in the 8Gb Fibre Channel, FCoE and Ethernet markets.
Darling said QLogic offers an impressive portfolio that spans storage, server and data networking market segments and is well-positioned to address the broad networking requirements of leading companies across China, Japan, Korea and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.
"I look forward to expanding our sales presence and strategic initiatives on this side of the globe," he said.
Darling will report to Scott Genereux, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
"The Asia Pacific IT sector is growing at a rate faster than many other regions; Japan is the second largest storage market in the world while China's economy is performing better than expected in the current business climate," he said.
"The opportunity for growth and market expansion is significant.
"Having spent the past decade in Asia spearheading highly successful sales strategies for some of the world's leading storage companies-many of whom are QLogic OEM customers-Martin will enable us to expand upon existing relationships, successfully forge new ones and accelerate our growth in this important region," he added.
Darling has over 15 years experience in the storage industry.
Most recently, he was VP and general manager of DataDirect Networks (DDN) APAC.
Prior to DDN, he was at Copan Systems, where he was responsible for APAC sales.
He also headed up APAC Dell business sales unit at EMC and worked at Hitachi's Data Systems unit where he doubled channel sales in three years.
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