What's the storage
market about?
A lot of it is about
SSDs,
HDDs,
chips, and the
boxes they go in and the
interfaces and
software which enable
them do something useful. There's plenty of
news and stuff about
those things elsewhere on STORAGEsearch.com.
But here, on this particular page, it's news about key people. Follow
the storage people trail (or the
money) and you might
be able to guess what their new companies will do next. |
| news about key
people
in the storage market |
New Book on Forensic Data
Recovery
Editor:- June 4, 2009 Ontrack this week
announced availability of the second 2nd edition of the American Bar
Association book,
“Electronic
Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now.”
The
authors, both have strong connections to Ontrack and more than 20 years
combined experience in the legal technology industry.
Michele C.S. Lange
serves as a director for the Legal Technologies business line for Kroll Ontrack.
As one of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts, Lange is frequently
called upon by journalists to comment on cutting-edge law and technology
developments, and she also routinely shares her expertise and knowledge as a
guest speaker for legal associations, CLE programs and law school courses. Lange
graduated from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse with highest honors
and the University of Minnesota Law School, cum laude.
Kristin
M. Nimsger, president, Kroll Ontrack, leads the company’s more than
30 offices of employees who work to produce products and services for legal,
corporate and government entities through three product lines: Legal
Technologies and Consulting, Data Recovery and Advanced Search Technologies.
Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Nimsger practiced law in the areas of complex
product liability litigation, and property and casualty insurance defense.
Nimsger earned her J.D. cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law, St.
Paul, Minnesota, and received her B.A. in English/Communications from the
University of Minnesota, Duluth.
See also:-
"book"
- editor mentions, Data
Recovery
Vembu Aims at US Online Backup Market
Editor:- May
28, 2009 - Vembu
Technologies today announced the appointment of Randy J. Whitehead
as VP of Strategic Business Development.
Reporting to Vembu's
President,
Lakshmanan Narayan, Randy will
primarily be responsible for growing Vembu's business in the US and Canada,
with a focus on channel partnerships.
"Our StoreGrid software
solution powers the
online backup services
business of more than 1,250 service providers worldwide, and more than 850 of
these service providers are based in North America," said Sekar Vembu, CEO
of Vembu Technologies. "Randy's deep experience in operations and sales,
coupled with his years of experience in the online backup market, will help to
further catalyze our rapid growth in the service provider market."
Prior to Vembu, Randy was co-founder and COO of
Arsenal Digital Solutions.
Randy has more than 20 years experience in outsourcing solutions and operations,
system integration and business development. He was also at
StorageTek, where he
was responsible for the industry's first implementation of a storage utility
solution and the structuring of large outsourcing/utility deals, as well as the
operation and delivery of managed storage services. He has also held senior
positions with IBM, BT, Data General and AT&T. Storage People
New SSD Bookmarks - from Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Editor:-
May 13, 2009 - Dolphin's
CEO,Tim
Miller shares his
SSD Bookmarks
with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
In
addition to the interesting articles and blogs suggested today, Tim has answered
for me the question of what to call externally connected PCIe SSDs. You may be
ahead of me here already - "e-PCIe" is to PCIe what eSATA is to
SATA. But it was new
to me. I've had an interesting time this morning reading the articles. I'm
sure you will too. ...read the article
Aleratec Names New VP Sales and Marketing
Editor:-
May 5, 2009 - Aleratec
today named
Howard Wing to lead the company's sales and marketing activities.
Howard Wing's recent experience includes VP of Sales and Marketing at
Plextor where he was
actively involved in industry initiatives to bring
USB 2.0 and
SATA interfaces to
the optical disc markets.
HP Poaches Storage Chief from EMC
Editor:- April 28,
2009 - HP announced
the
appointment
of David Donatelli to serve as executive VP Enterprise Servers,
Storage and Networking (a $19 billion annual revenue business).
HP
said Donatelli replaces Scott Stallard, who after 34 years, is retiring from HP.
Editor's comments:- EMC's website used to say nice things
about Donatelli (formerly President of EMC Storage Division). You can see his
archived biography
here.
It's apparently being purged as fast as HP's content management software will
allow.
A folow up article on
Barrons.com
says the courts have now got involved due to a non-compete clause.
Dataram Acquires Micro Memory Bank
Editor:- April
22, 2009 - Dataram
announced it has
acquired
Micro Memory
Bank.
MMB maintains a particular niche in legacy memory
products by being one of the few companies in the industry that carries and
stocks virtually every memory upgrade ever made.
Dataram's President
and CEO John Freeman said "David Sheerr (who founded MMB in 1994) is the
3rd executive to join Dataram in the past 12 months who has had previous
experience as the president of a company. David's entrepreneurial skills and
business success in our industry are valuable additions to our executive team."
Fusion-io Secures $47.5 million Series B Funding
Editor:-
April 7, 2009 - Fusion-io announced it has
closed $47.5 million in Series B funding and
named a new CEO,
David Bradford.
Bradford brings 30 years of experience to Fusion-io, including 15
years at Novell where
he helped lead the company from startup status through a series of acquisitions,
public offerings and global business development activities to its position as a
multi-billion dollar corporation. During his last 3 years at Novell, he reported
directly to the CEO, Eric Schmidt.
"I am delighted to hear that David Bradford has been appointed
CEO of Fusion-io," said Dr. Schmidt, now the CEO of
Google. "I have
great confidence in his ability to lead this innovative company."
"In just over a year, this company has demonstrated through its
ground-breaking product offerings that it has the potential to change the way
enterprise organizations think about storage," said
Scott
Sandell, general partner at NEA (one of
Fusion-io's early investors). "This round of funding will enable Fusion-io
to build on that momentum and help the company keep pace with the growth demands
of the marketplace, while permitting them to continue leading the evolution of
network storage."
SSD Bookmarks from Solid Access Technologies
Editor:-
April 2, 2009 - Solid
Access Technologies' President, Tomas Havrda - shares his
SSD Bookmarks
today with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
This
is a company whose revenue grew 400% in 2008 and whose customers
include Samsung Securities. So you may be surprised what Tomas Havrda has to
say on the subject of flash SSDs for enterprise acceleration. He's not convinced
it's a good idea.
IDEMA Names Sun's Flash Guru to Lead SSD Standards
Editor:-
March 18, 2009 - IDEMA
today announced that Michael Cornwell will lead its standards program
for
HDDs and
SSDs.
Cornwell, the Lead Technologist for Flash at
Sun Microsystems since
2007, has a long history in storage technologies and collaboration between
manufacturers and customers. He spent 5 years with
Quantum in various
engineering and design roles. In 2002 he moved to
Apple, where he was a
lead storage architect on that company's iPod digital content player. See also:-
Storage ORGs,
Storage People
SSD Bookmarks from Woody Hutsell
Editor:- March 16,
2009 - Texas Memory
Systems' President, Woody Hutsell - shares his
SSD Bookmarks
today with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
Those
who know the SSD industry well, mostly think of TMS as a company which makes
very fast SSDs for accelerating
SAN resident applications.
But in the many discussions I've had with Woody Hutsell during the past decade -
"reliability"
has also been a frequent topic in our conversations.
That's because
when you manufacture products which pack more memory chips than anyone else has
ever put into a single box - all those "10 to the minus something"
numbers which relate physics to semiconductor memory effects - add up to
design problems which are far from theoretical. TMS has been engineering solid
state storage systems for
30 years.
So I was not surprised to see an in depth paper about reliability being one of
the articles in this list of bookmarks.
Terry Cunningham Rejoins Seagate
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -
March 16, 2009 - Seagate today announced that Terry Cunningham
will take the helm as senior vp of Consumer Solutions Division (CSD) and
i365 effective immediately.
Having served previously as president
and COO of Seagate Software, Cunningham returns for a 2nd term with the company
to help augment the success of its consumer solutions and business services
divisions.
Cunningham comes to Seagate from
Coral8, an enterprise
event-processing software company, where he served as CEO. Prior to that,
Cunningham was president and CEO of InfoGenesis, a maker of consumer-focused,
guest experience management software for the hospitality and foodservice
industries.
Cunningham originally founded Crystal Decisions, which was
purchased by Seagate in
1994, integrated into the company's software division and later became Seagate
Software. Cunningham piloted Seagate Software through $350 million worth of
acquisitions and helped grow the organization, with 40 offices and 2,000
employees. Cunningham's accomplishments also include serving as president and
COO of VERITAS Software,
and founding 2 other successful software companies. ...i365 profile,
Storage People,
Data Recovery
SSD Bookmarks from a Flash SSD Pioneer
Editor:-
March 10, 2009 - BiTMICRO's
CEO -
Rey Bruce - shares his
SSD Bookmarks
today with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
Lots
of flash SSD companies nowadays like to call themselves "pioneers".
In this case it's true, and the choice of label was my own. BiTMICRO launched
an 18GB 3.5" flash SSD 10 years ago - in
1999.
See also:-
SSD Market
History
Pliant Technology kicks off new series - the SSD Industry
Bookmarks
Editor:- March 5, 2009 - Pliant Technology's
VP of Marketing, Greg Goelz shares his
SSD Bookmarks in
the 1st episode of a classic new series starting today on StorageSearch.com.
NetApp's Denise Ridolfo Joins SNIA Europe Board
Editor:-
March 2, 2009 - SNIA
Europe announced today the recent appointment of NetApp's Denise
Ridolfo to its Board of Directors.
Ridolfo, who is based in the USA
and France, is NetApp's Industry & Standards Operations Manager, reporting
into the CTO Office, and represents the company in various
industry associations.
Ridolfo has spent over 15 years in the IT and storage networking industry.
Storage People
Scott Cleland - New Director of Marketing at Adaptec
MILPITAS, Calif. - February
11, 2009 - Adaptec, Inc. today announced the appointment of Scott
Cleland as Director of Marketing.
With nearly 25 years of
storage experience Cleland will lead Adaptec's global marketing activities.
Prior to joining Adaptec, Cleland served as the director of worldwide marketing
for AMCC 3ware. And
before that Cleland was director of product marketing and technical marketing
for IBM's Mylex storage
division, and previously held marketing positions at Archive,
Exabyte,
BusLogic,
and Conner
Peripherals.
...Adaptec profile,
RAID controllers,
Storage People
Nanometer Storage Announces VP of Engineering
SAN JOSE, Calif. - February 9, 2009 -
Nanometer Storage announced the hiring of Mr. Ove Dunder as its
Senior VP of Engineering and Research.
Mr. Dunder, 60, a mechanical engineer, is a multiple patent holder
and comes to Nanometer Storage having directed the successful development of
technology solutions for other
venture backed
organizations. ...Nanometer
Storage profile
Editor's comments:- this stealth mode company
says they're working on 3.5" form factor storage devices that will offer
more capacity than anything else currently available. They'd better get a move
on - because that's a form factor which is slipping down the
storage charts.
"Fusion-io - in the right place at the right time" -
says new Chief Scientist, Steve Wozniak
Salt Lake City, UT -
February 5, 2009 - Fusion-io announced today that Steve Wozniak
has joined the company as its Chief Scientist.
Wozniak will act as
a key technical advisor to the Fusion-io research and development group. He will
also work closely with the executive team of Fusion-io in formulating a company
strategy that will accelerate the expansion of major global accounts.
"With
the revolutionary technological advances being made by Fusion-io, the company is
in the right place at the right time with the right technology and ready to
direct the history of technology into the 21st century and beyond," said
Wozniak. "The technology marketplace has not seen such capacity for
innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced
by the home computer. Fusion-io's technology is extremely useful to many
different applications and almost all of the world's servers."
Prior to this appointment Wozniak was a member of the company's
advisory board, where he counseled the company on market trends, product road
maps and other strategic activities - which will continue.
...Fusion-io profile,
...Steve Wozniak profile
Cypress Announces Management Change in Memory Division
SAN
JOSE, Calif. - February 5, 2008 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today
announced that Ahmad Chatilla, EVP of the Memory and Imaging Division
will be leaving the company this month to pursue an opportunity as the CEO of a
semiconductor wafer supplier.
He will be replaced by 21-year
Cypress veteran, Dana Nazarian, who is currently the VP of the synchronous SRAM
business unit of MID.
"Ahmad has been a valuable member of the Cypress executive team.
Working with Dana and the rest of the management team in MID, he has created an
extremely profitable and cash-flow-generating enterprise-even in the current
economic environment," commented T.J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress. "We are
sorry to see Ahmad leave after 15 years with Cypress, but we take pride in what
he has been able to accomplish and we wish him the best in his new career as CEO
of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc."
Dana Nazarian joined Cypress in 1988 as a new college graduate from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BSEE and rose steadily throughout the
company in a variety of technical and business roles.
...Cypress
Semiconductor profile, storage
people, storage chips
StorageIO Founder Publishes Book - Green and Virtual Data Center
Stillwater, Minn.- January 27, 2009
- "The Green and Virtual Data Center" - is a new book (376 pages,
MSRP $79.95) by noted author and StorageIO founder Greg Schulz.
The book sets aside the political aspects of what is or is not
considered green
to examine the opportunities for organizations trying to grow their business
while being environmentally friendly in an economically efficient manner.
Addressing multiple technology domains and disciplines, it looks at design and
implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to
sustain application and business growth while maximizing resources, such as
power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity.
...StorageIO profile
NetApp Veteran is New CEO at Broadcast Media Storage Company
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. - January 27, 2009 - Omneon, Inc. announced today that its
board of directors has appointed Suresh Vasudevan as the company's
president and CEO and as a member of the board.
Vasudevan joins
Omneon having most recently served as senior vice president of product
operations at Network
Appliance and as a member of the company's executive team, leading all
product management and engineering for the NetApp product portfolio.
Vasudevan's career at NetApp spanned nearly a decade. Prior to his tenure at
NetApp, Vasudevan worked at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in
New Delhi, Mumbai, and Chicago as a senior engagement manager focusing on
product marketing, operations, and marketing strategy.
...Omneon profile,
Storage People,
NAS
Hitachi GST Attracts Magnetic CTO
SAN JOSE,
Calif. - January 19, 2009 - Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
today announced the appointment of Steven Campbell to the position of
Chief Technology Officer.
As the top technology executive for
Hitachi GST, Steven will play a strategic role in the company's future direction
and business growth.
Steven has 30 years of experience in the
electronics and data storage industry, having served in senior executive roles
at Western Digital
and technology management roles at
Quantum and
HP. Most recently he was CEO
of Innotek Limited and its subsidiary
Magnecomp Precision Technology,
a strategic component supplier to major
hard drive companies
(which was acquired by TDK
in 2007). ...Hitachi
profile
Dave Hitz Publishes Bio
Editor:-
January 12, 2009 - NetApp's founder, Dave Hitz has written an
autobiography called - How To Castrate a Bull.
It's published
tomorrow. ...order
the book, ...Network
Appliance profile,
Animal Brands
in the Storage Market
Seagate Seeks New Direction
January
12, 2009 - Seagate announced the departure of William D. Watkins
from the role of CEO.
Seagate has been talking about delivering
SSD products since 2007. But don't hold your breath waiting...
Why Seagate
will Fail the SSD Challenge
SanDisk's CEO Receives Exemplary Leadership Award
Milpitas, CA -
December 11, 2008 - SanDisk Corp announced that its founder and CEO -
Dr. Eli Harari today received the Global Semiconductor Alliance's
Exemplary Leadership Award.
The prestigious award recognizes
individuals whose contributions to the semiconductor industry exemplify a
transformative vision and global leadership. Dr. Harari, along with his
colleagues Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, founded SanDisk in 1988. Since then,
SanDisk has grown into the world's largest supplier of
flash memory cards, with
revenues in excess of $3.89 billion in 2007.
Eli Harari holds a Ph.D.
in solid state sciences from Princeton University, and received a B.S. in
physics with honors from Manchester University. In addition to inventing EEPROM,
the precursor to flash, Harari's technical resume includes more than 100 U.S.
and foreign patents. ...SanDisk
profile,
Storage People
MTI Names New CMO
Godalming,
UK - September 22, 2008 - MTI today announced the appointment of
Aad Dekkers to the position of Chief Marketing Officer and Head of
Business Development.
Aad will direct MTI'smarketing strategy and
business development. Aad will report directly to Keith Clark, MTI's CEO. Aad
joins MTI from Network
Appliance where he was the Director of Products, Solutions & Alliance
Marketing for Europe and served on the board of
SNIA Europe. ...MTI Technology profile
Tarmin Technologies Appoints US Sales Director
Ongar, UK - September 9, 2008 - Tarmin
Technologies announced today that Bruce Holbert has joined Tarmin as
director of sales, North America.
Holbert was most recently partner accounts manager for national
accounts at EMC. Prior to
that, Holbert spent over 15 years at several start-up and reseller-oriented
companies where he was involved in numerous partnership, channel management, and
direct sales roles.
...Tarmin profile
SiliconSystems Names New VP Marketing
ALISO VIEJO, Calif -
July 10, 2008 - SiliconSystems, Inc. today announced that Robert
Fan has joined the company as VP of marketing.
Fan brings to
SiliconSystems more than 22 years of technology industry experience in
marketing, sales and product development.
Prior to joining
SiliconSystems, Fan was VP of corporate marketing and business development of
Entorian Technologies. Fan has also
held senior management positions at
Intel where he focused on
the mobile computing and storage markets.
...SiliconSystems
profile
LeftHand Networks Appoints Richard Shea to Lead North American
Sales
BOULDER,
Colo. - July 7, 2008 - LeftHand Networks today announced the
appointment of Richard Shea as VP of North American sales.
Shea,
formerly area sales VP at
EqualLogic, will
oversee all domestic and Canadian sales efforts. Shea will focus on furthering
LeftHand Networks' iSCSI SAN
leadership position and driving fast-paced revenue growth through LeftHand
Networks' network of channel partners.
...LeftHand
profile
Editor's comments:- there are hundreds of oems listed
on storagesearch.com which sell
NAS products. So it's a
confusing market.
Although LeftHand claims to be the "largest
pure-play iSCSI vendor" (with more than 2,700 customers) I checked their
reader ranking on our site and found they actually get less reader interest than
TrueSAN Networks (a
company which went out of business many years ago.) So it looks like they need
to find something more interesting to say.
SiliconSystems Names Phil Gioia VP of Operations
ALISO VIEJO, Calif -
June 10, 2008 - SiliconSystems, Inc. today announced that Phil Gioia
has joined the company as VP of operations.
Gioia, with more
than 25 years of technology industry experience in manufacturing operations,
will lead the expansion of SiliconSystems' operations to support its rapid
global growth.
Prior to joining SiliconSystems, Gioia was VP of
supply chain management at QLogic
in charge of outsourced manufacturing operations. Before that, Gioia was a
senior VP of operations for
SPARC notebook
maker Tadpole-RDI,
VP of manufacturing and procurement for
Pinnacle
Micro and Director of Manufacturing for
Toshiba America.
Gioia achieved the rank of captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, and has an MBA
from the University of La Verne, School of Business.
...SiliconSystems
profile, storage
reliability
LSI's CEO Talks about SSD Market
Editor:- June 9,
2008 - LSI's CEO Abhi Talwalkar reveals his thinking about the
SSD market in an interview published today by DIGITIMES.
Talwalkar
talks in knowledgeable detail about what he thinks are the prospects for LSI
in both the notebook and server SSD markets. But I come away from this with an
impression that LSI is going to be a late me-too player in the SSD
infrastructure market. ...read the
article, ...LSI
profile, RAID adapter
cards
TMS Has Soft Solution for DBA's Hardest SSD Challenges
Houston, Texas - May
29, 2008 - Texas Memory Systems today announced the appointment ofMike
Ault as resident Oracle guru.
Mr. Ault is a recognized Oracle
expert and has published more than 20 Oracle-related books. By bringing him
on board, TMS can provide the greatest possible level of expertise to help
address customer database performance challenges and ensure optimal success with
deployments of its
RamSan SSDs.
...TMS profile,
...Mike Ault's Blog
Editor's
comments:- when planning business changes - the softer side (getting the
people part right) often doesn't get as much attention as the harder aspects
(technology, investments, infrastructure.)
Using
SSDs for enterprise
acceleration works best - when brainpower is working in tandem with the
technology.
SiliconSystems Founder is Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Finalist
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -
May 20, 2008 - SiliconSystems, Inc. today announced that its founder and
CEO, Michael Hajeck, has been selected as a regional finalist for the
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Ernst &
Young recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global
basis that are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses.
This is the 2nd consecutive year in which Hajeck has been named a finalist.
Winners will be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony on June 11th at the
Hyatt Regency in Irvine, Calif.
...SiliconSystems
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| Animal Brands and
Metaphors in the Storage Market |
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $180 billion
in 2007, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
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