Sios Technology Inc. announced the appointment of Jerry Melnick to the position of chief operating officer (COO). Melnick's appointment moves SIOS forward in delivering innovative software solutions that enable enterprise IT to rapidly adopt and benefit from emerging technologies. With more than 25 years in the industry, Melnick brings significant experience in enterprise high availability and infrastructure software markets to SIOS.

As COO, Melnick will drive the company's focus forward, delivering solutions that maximize the value and expand deployment of technologies such as virtualization, cloud-computing, SSD and SDN for use with critical enterprise applications. Melnick most recently served as the CTO at Marathon Technologies, where he led the business and product strategy to drive sales for the company's fault tolerant solutions.