Amdahl Names New Vice President and General Manager Of Software Group.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 29, 1999-- Linda Wink to lead Amdahl's Software Group as it delivers software solutions that enable global businesses to build high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. computing infrastructures. Amdahl Global Solutions, a division of 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 Linda Wink to the position of Vice President and General Manager of Amdahl's Software Group. Linda Wink is reporting directly to the Group President, Alan Bell. Linda Wink is directly responsible for the strategic positioning and the overall management of Amdahl's software business to complement Amdahl's infrastructure solutions initiative announced on October 12, 1998. "Linda is an experienced software executive, as well as an exciting and energetic addition to Amdahl Global Solutions. We are extremely pleased to have Linda Wink spearheading our Software Group," said Alan Bell, Group President of Amdahl Global Solutions. "Along with tremendous experience, Linda brings her own hands-on sales oriented approach to management, which will help her lead the Software Group into the 21st century." Following a career that started at Candle Corporation as CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , Linda Wink has held executive level positions in the computer industry including Vice President of Finance and Administration at BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. . In 1987, Ms. Wink co-founded 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. Software setting new standards in Automation Operations with OPS/MVS. Immediately preceding her role at Sentryl Software as Chief Executive Officer and President, Ms. Wink was `Interim CEO' for the e-commerce digital rights business unit at Xerox. Ms. Wink holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Los Angeles. About Amdahl Global Solutions - www.amdahl.com/about Amdahl is a registered trademark of Amdahl Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com , the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. |
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