Amdahl Names New Executive Vice President of Software and Global Services.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998-- Brendan Dawson to lead Amdahl's software and services into the next millennium. Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today announced the appointment of Brendan J. Dawson to the position of Executive Vice President, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, David B. Wright. Mr. Dawson will be directly responsible for the strategic positioning and the overall management of Amdahl's software and services businesses to complement Amdahl's infrastrucy, to a leading solutions provider." Following a 28 year career at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Brendan Dawson has held executive level positions in the computer industry including President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Information Analysis, Inc., Presidlly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leadmpany supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. (R), Windows NT(R), and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. For the YeaCorporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in hl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. |
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