Chaparral Network Storage Adds Key Positions To Management Team.LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999-- Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of intelligent Routers and RAID controllers for storage area networks, today announced several new appointments to its management team. The strategic positions filled include vice president of marketing, vice president of business development and manager of product test. Robert Morris, the newly appointed vice president of marketing for Chaparral, will direct all aspects of the company's marketing efforts including: channel marketing, direct marketing, product management, strategic planning, public relations, advertising, tradeshows and events and Web marketing. Prior to joining Chaparral, Morris was president and COO of Gambit Automated Design/Synopsys Inc., an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. technology software tools and services company. He has also held the roles of vice president of marketing for Vangard Technology, Inc., ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant Cygnet cygnet a young swan. and Conner Peripherals as well as General Manager at Fujitsu Computer Products of America. Morris has over 20 years of technology experience and broad marketing experience at both the corporate and product levels. Michael Hardy joins Chaparral in the strategic role of vice president of business development. Previously with TeraStor Corporation, Hardy will focus on developing Chaparral's business opportunities in Storage Area Networks (SANs) and identify future directions for Chaparral products. He will also be responsible for Chaparral's SAN Partner Program. In this role he will work to ensure that Chaparral SAN solutions are interoperable with products from leading software Fibre Channel hub and switch vendors and computer platform host bus adapters. Prior to TeraStor, Hardy worked with Silicon Graphics, Vangard Technology, Inc. and ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up Products in various management roles. Robert Henderson joins Chaparral Network Storage as manager of product test. Reporting to Jerry L. Walker, executive vice president of operations, Henderson is responsible for product qualification and interoperability testing for Chaparral's RAID and Router products. Henderson has over 15 years experience in the data storage industry, including nine years at Exabyte Corporation where he held various test and software management positions. Prior to Exabyte, Henderson was an engineer and manager at Tallgrass Technologies in Lenexa, Kansas. "The appointments announced today are integral to Chaparral's future growth," said Michael Gluck, President and COO of Chaparral. "Morris, Hardy and Henderson are three extremely seasoned professionals and I feel confident they will identify innovative and successful team strategies as well as provide overall leadership in moving Chaparral forward with superior solutions." About Chaparral Network Storage Products Chaparral Network Storage manufactures Intelligent Storage Routers that are focused on the mid-range to high-end NT 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). tape and tape library markets. These products incorporate Fibre Channel and SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. technologies to enable seamless connectivity across disk, tape and library systems. The Chaparral family of products meets users' needs for high performance, fault tolerance and advanced management capabilities. Chaparral supports Extended Copy, the new SCSI-3 standard adopted by both ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. and the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) for third-party copy. Chaparral's unique software/hardware solution provides an ability to deliver the ultimate in high-speed backup solutions over Fibre Channel. Chaparral's External RAID Controllers for disk storage systems are designed for industry-leading high performance and secure data protection for departmental and enterprise storage markets. The product family includes SCSI and Fibre Channel offerings. Additional features of Chaparral's RAID controllers include advanced configuration and management interfaces, high-availability functions such as automated fail-over, ECC-protected memory and hot-swappable components. Chaparral's RAID and Router products feature an embedded Application Programming Interface (API) which supports third-party Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) implementation. The result is simplified configuration and data management. About Chaparral Network Storage In July 1999 Chaparral Network Storage officially changed its name from Chaparral Technologies to better reflect the company's strategic direction in the network storage area. Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, Chaparral provides external RAID and Router Fibre Channel and SCSI storage products and solutions to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and Distribution customers. Chaparral is privately held and has strategic relationships with Adaptec and others that include equity participation. Additional information about Chaparral and its products can be found at www.chaparralnet.com. |
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