RELDATA Doubles Up On Storage Veterans
RELDATA, the pioneer of a new generation of unified networked storage systems, recently announced the appointment of David Hubbard as President and CEO and the appointment of Jeff Helthall as Vice President of Sales.
"Data center managers are feeling the pain of rapid storage growth. RELDATA has a real all-in-one solution that solves that problem," said Helthall. "I'm very impressed with RELDATA's product offering and thrilled to join the company."
Helthall brings an impressive track record of creating revenue growth for storage networking vendors. His twenty year career includes VP Sales & Marketing of Tacit Networks (WAN storage software) and VP Sales and Marketing of CrosStor Software (NAS and SAN software solutions). Previously, he held sales roles at Netpower, Verbex and Convergent Technologies. Helthall will be responsible for worldwide sales and field marketing, including OEM and VAR channel development, and will report directly to Hubbard.
"RELDATA delivers a dramatic reduction in storage operational costs for data center managers. We are a leader in the unified storage market and I'm excited about taking the company to the next level," said Hubbard. "I'm also happy to have Jeff on the executive team. His deep understanding of the storage market, and experience in emerging storage vendors, will further help us accelerate RELDATA's growth."
Hubbard joined RELDATA as Chief Operating Officer in February 2007. His twenty five year career included senior executive roles at industry-leading storage vendors such as QLogic, Inrange/Computerm, Computer Network Technology and Digital Equipment Corporation. Hubbard assumes full executive leadership of the company, reporting directly to RELDATA's Board of Directors.
"Both Hubbard and Helthall are storage industry veterans with strong track records in sales, marketing and operations. The entire Board is delighted with these appointments," commented Boris Anderer, Chairman of RELDATA's Board of Directors. Boris is a founder of RELDATA and previous President, CEO and Chairman of RELDATA.
About RELDATA
RELDATA is the leader of a new generation of open, scalable and reliable unified storage solutions that deliver unrivaled price/performance with concurrent, high-speed, IP SAN and NAS storage services. Its modular architecture lets organizations easily expand both application-based (SAN) and file-based (NAS) storage capacity to meet user demand, seamlessly consolidate underused storage assets and virtualize industry standard storage resources, and ensure data availability with a variety of local and WAN replication and snapshot features. RELDATA products are designed to co-exist with more expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network Appliance and EMC . RELDATA is headquartered in New Jersey. RELDATA products are available worldwide through authorized value-added resellers and system integrators. More information is available at www.RELDATA.com.
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