COPAN Systems Welcomes Industry Visionary and Egenera CTO to Its Board of Directors.Business Editors LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Former CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. and founder of Egenera, Vern Brownell, to join COPAN Co·pán A ruined Mayan city of western Honduras that flourished from c. 300 b.c. to a.d. 900. The ruins include the Hieroglyphic Stairway with nearly 2,000 glyphs. Systems board of directors COPAN Systems, provider of the first and only disk alternative for tape, today announced Vern Brownell, CTO of Egenera, is joining its board of directors. On the heels of the launch of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , the Revolution 200T, COPAN Systems welcomes this industry leader. "We are very pleased to have Vern Brownell join our board. His background as one of the leading corporate CTOs, and his navigation of Egenera through its first few years brings a wealth of experiences to COPAN Systems," said Dave Davenport Dave Davenport (born February 20, 1890 in Alexandria, Louisiana - October 16, 1954), is a former professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1914-1919. Davenport would play for the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Terriers, and the St. Louis Browns. , 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. and President of COPAN Systems. "We look forward to having Vern's leadership help shape the future of COPAN Systems." As the former Chief Technology Officer of Goldman Sachs, he was responsible for worldwide technology infrastructure overseeing 1,300 technologists in data center, network, telecommunications and trading floor operations. Mr. Brownell founded Egenera after recognizing that nothing short of a totally new approach to server technology would meet the needs of today's large data centers. Seeing COPAN System's vision and execution to date, he has joined to help lead a similar revolution in storage technology. "Just as Egenera has introduced a new server technology that is changing the world of the Fortune 500, COPAN Systems has introduced a new class of storage that will transform how long term digital data is stored and accessed," said Vern Brownell, CTO of Egenera. "COPAN Systems' executive team is leading a transformation in storage, and I am very pleased to be a member of COPAN System's board and help in this effort." About COPAN Systems COPAN Systems is revolutionizing the rules of storage. With its radically new architecture, it is filling the hole in the hierarchy, delivering disk-based storage performance and reliability at the price and scale of tape. The company is led by storage industry veterans from Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , StorageTek, VERITAS, Dell and Compaq, and is privately-held, with venture capital investments by Austin Ventures and Globespan Capital. The first COPAN Systems product has been validated by over 100 enterprise customers, including many Fortune 500 institutions spanning media, financial, manufacturing and high-end computing computing - computer industries. The product will be available in mid-2004. More information on COPAN Systems is available at http://www.copansys.com. |
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