AMCC Announces New General Manager for Its Storage Business Unit.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture (including a Power Architecture license), optical transport and storage solutions. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ), a global leader in embedded Power Architecture[TM] processing, optical transport, and storage solutions, today announced the appointment of Russ Johnson as senior vice president and general manager of its Storage Business Unit, succeeding Barbara Murphy. Mr Johnson brings a strong knowledge of the storage industry as well as broad relationships with the distribution channel and major Tier 1 storage vendors. Most recently, Russ was in a senior executive role at Adaptec as the vice president of Worldwide Sales. Prior to this, Russ held several management positions during the eleven years he spent at Adaptec, including vice president and general manager of International Sales & Marketing and OEM Global Account Director. "Russ has a proven track record of major accomplishments in the storage world and will be a tremendous asset to our company. I am very pleased to welcome him as the newest member of AMCC's senior management team," said Kambiz Hooshmand, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AMCC. "Barbara Murphy's leadership has been instrumental in establishing us as the recognized leader in SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. and SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. RAID. I appreciate her assistance in finding a solid replacement for herself." About AMCC AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and store digital information for the world's wired and wireless networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture[TM] based processors and with world-class expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing, PHY technology, Storage processors and RAID controllers our products are the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. AMCC's 3ware[R] SAS and SATA RAID controllers deliver cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications like disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network-attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ), video, and high-performance computing. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com. AMCC and 3ware are registered trademarks of APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION. Power Architecture is a trademark licensed by Power.org. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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