ABOUT DISKOVER DATA
The company behind the catalog.
Diskover builds the metadata catalog that lets teams see and act on every file they hold, across every platform they run.
1.4B files
indexed in 2 hours, that’s ~200K files per second on 3 nodes
Diskover benchmark
103B+ files
in one searchable index at a semiconductor company
Diskover customer
30% – 50%
reclaimed by tiering and cleaning ROT; top performers cut footprint by 50%
Diskover customers
WHO WE ARE
One catalog for every file, on every system.
Diskover Data makes Diskover, an enriched metadata catalog for unstructured data. It indexes file shares, object stores, cloud, and archives in place, adds business context to every file, and turns what it finds into searches, reports, and policies. Teams in any industry, from engineering and media to research, energy, and finance, use it to cut storage costs and prepare their data for AI.
OUR STORY
Built by an engineer who lived with the problem.
Chris Park spent more than a decade as a systems engineer at visual effects and animation studios, such as Digital Domain and Zoic Studios. He watched storage fill up with files that nobody could find or explain. In 2016, he wrote the first version of Diskover: a crawler that indexed file systems with Elasticsearch, showed where the space was going, and found the files nobody had opened in years.
The company grew from that crawler into a catalog that teams act on. In 2021, Paul Honrud, founder of DataFrameworks, the company behind ClarityNow, joined Chris to build the business, and Marianne Zuhorski joined the same year. Will Hall, who had led DataFrameworks as CEO, joined as CEO in 2024. Today, Diskover manages billions of files for enterprises in every industry that runs on large volumes of data, including media, semiconductor design, life science, energy, financial services, and manufacturing.
2016
Chris Park builds the first Diskover crawler and starts the company.
2021
The company is incorporated and forms a partnership with Dell Technologies.
2025
Diskover raises a $7.5M seed round, with investment from Snowflake Ventures and NetApp, and acquires CloudSoda.
2026
NetApp announces that it will resell Diskover to its customers.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Your data is your business.
It’s also ours.
We help organizations turn unstructured data from a cost they carry into the fuel for better decisions, automation, and AI.
LEADERSHIP
The team bringing structure to your unstructured data.
Diskover’s leaders bring decades of experience in storage, data management, and enterprise software. Click a photo to read each bio.
Will Hall
CEO
Will Hall has over 20 years of experience in Sales and Executive roles across both large corporations and early-stage startups. Most recently, he served as an Operating Partner at Eclipse Ventures, where he specialized in go-to-market strategy and execution. Before joining Eclipse, Will was the Vice President of Sales at Cerebras Systems, where, as the first member of the Sales team, he led the early market adoption of Cerebras in the Enterprise, Research, and Generative AI segments. Prior to Cerebras, he was the CEO of DataFrameworks, which was acquired by Dell EMC in 2018.
Will also held senior sales positions at Fusion-io and Scality, overseeing Enterprise, OEM, and Channel Sales. He began his career at NetApp, where he spent a decade managing Sales teams across the Commercial, Enterprise, and Global levels.
Will holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.
Will Hall
CEO
Paul Honrud
CPO
Paul Honrud has over 35 years of experience in data management and storage, with a deep expertise in scaling technology-driven businesses. He is the founder of DataFrameworks, the company behind the ClarityNow technology for large-scale data management, which was acquired by Dell EMC in 2018 and rebranded as DataIQ.
Paul is also the inventor listed on two U.S. patents: U.S. Patent No. 7,672,854 and U.S. Patent No. 7,430,513, both titled “Data Storage Management Driven by Business Objectives.” His career includes key business development roles at Baydel and Systems Industries.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration from San Diego State University.
Paul Honrud
CPO
Chris Park
CTO & Founder
Chris Park, also known as Shirosai, is a Software Engineer and Designer originally from Ventura, California. After moving to British Columbia, Canada, during his early years, Chris developed a passion for computers and began writing software in DOS by the age of 8. He pursued his interest further, graduating in 2006 from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) with a degree in Computer Engineering.
With over a decade of experience as a Systems Engineer in the Media and Entertainment industry, Chris has contributed to the success of major VFX and animation studios, including Digital Domain, Zoic Studios, and Bardel Entertainment. In 2016, he shifted his career path, relocating to Japan and founding Diskover, a venture where he operates under the name Shirosaidev. By early 2021, Chris had built a strong team around him, taking on the role of lead developer, with a shared vision of driving Diskover to reach its full potential.
Chris Park
CTO & Founder
Marianne Zuhorski
SVP Strategic Alliances
Marianne Zuhorski has three decades of experience in the tech industry, with a career spanning executive-level sales and strategic alliances. She is known for her ability to create synergistic partnerships that drive revenue growth and find the most effective routes to market for early-stage companies.
As the VP of Strategic Alliances at DataFrameworks, Marianne played a pivotal role in the company’s acquisition by Dell EMC. At Fusion-io, she served as the Global Strategic Account Director, where she developed and launched initiatives that grew the company’s HPE revenues from $0 to $80 million annually. Her consistent success stems from her unique talent for driving relationships from the inside out, building strong connections with key stakeholders, and leveraging these relationships to foster the adoption of new, often disruptive technologies, processes, and products.
Marianne Zuhorski
SVP Strategic Alliances
Olivier Rivard
VP of Product
As a successful entrepreneur in the technology and data management sectors, Olivier brings over a decade of experience to his role as VP of Product at Diskover. While President of Oridigraphe, a Canadian IT Services company, he recognized the need for data visualization solutions to help companies gain insights from their unstructured data and founded DataIntell.
After CloudSoda acquired DataIntell, and Diskover acquired CloudSoda in 2025, Olivier leads product management for innovative data management solutions that empower organizations to optimize their data storage and management strategies.
Olivier holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology.
Olivier Rivard
VP of Product
JD Trout
VP of Engineering
As VP of Engineering, JD Trout brings over 20 years of experience in software development, cloud architecture, and IT infrastructure management. He has guided teams in creating scalable, cloud-native solutions, managing complex system integrations and overseeing robust IT infrastructure across a range of industries.
JD’s expertise includes architecting high-performance environments, implementing containerized microservices, and driving digital transformation initiatives. JD is passionate about leveraging emerging technologies and is always curious to explore how they can help us better understand and interact with our world.
JD Trout
VP of Engineering
Tony Chidiac
CRO
Tony is a revenue and growth executive with a proven track record of scaling high-growth technology companies and building world-class go-to-market organizations. As Chief Revenue Officer at Diskover Data, he leads global revenue strategy across sales, partnerships, and customer success, helping enterprises unlock the value of unstructured data to power AI and business transformation.
Prior to Diskover, Tony led Global AI Sales at NetApp, driving AI revenue across its worldwide customer base. He previously served as Vice President of Sales at Core Scientific during its IPO, where he helped scale revenue operations through a critical period of growth and public market transition.
Tony earned his degree from the University of Washington, where he was also a member of the Division I football program, an experience that shaped his disciplined, team-first leadership approach.
Tony Chidiac
CRO
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