Evan Kaplan has been named CEO of InfluxData, the leading open source time-series database for IoT, succeeding Paul Dix who will assume the role of CTO to help focus the company on delivering its TICK stack and managing time-series data at scale. Kaplan brings over 20 years of startup and big company leadership experience to the role, having previously served as CEO of iPass Inc. and founder of Aventail Corporation. InfluxData is uniquely positioned to deliver platforms that enable real-time insights from trillions of time-series based events in IoT systems, custom DevOps monitoring, and real-time analytics. With Kaplan at the helm, InfluxData aims to make its platform even easier to use and more tightly integrated with complementary open source technologies. The company will continue to focus on delivering its TICK stack, which consists of Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor, to help organizations collect, store, visualize, process, and alert on time-series data in real-time.