Chaparral Technologies Appoints Grant Saviers to Board of Directors.LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1998--Today, Chaparral Technologies announced the appointment of Grant Saviers to the Board of Directors of the company. Chaparral plans significant growth resulting from its product development efforts and technology acquisitions. Chaparral's products are designed to provide leading-edge solutions in enterprise applications and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Saviers brings to Chaparral invaluable experience and successes from 30 years in the computer industry and related network solutions. "The addition of Grant to our Board of Directors represents the beginning of Chaparral's aggressive efforts to capture a growing market in storage networking solutions," said Mike Gluck, President and COO. "We are pleased to add Grant to our team and we will surely benefit from his expertise and proven track record. Combining these superior qualifications with our already strong management team will help make a significant impact in Chaparral's growth over the coming years." Gary Allison, Chairman 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. commented, "Grant's experience and broad knowledge will greatly benefit Chaparral as we look to our future. We plan to establish our leadership position in the SAN market, expand our presence globally, and focus on the development and marketing of our new storage technologies and solutions. We are proud and delighted to have Grant join us." Saviers was most recently Chairman and CEO of Adaptec Corporation. During his 6-year term, Adaptec's annual revenue grew 6 fold to one billion dollars. Mr. Saviers joined Adaptec as 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. in August 1992 and was named president and chief executive officer in July 1995. Prior to Adaptec, Grant spent 24 years at Digital Equipment Corporation where he created the Storage Systems Group. During the later part of his career at DEC he led the PC Systems & Peripherals Group. Mr. Saviers holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in Computer Engineering from Case Institute of Technology. He is currently Director of Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. and overseer of the Computer Museum in Boston. About Chaparral Technologies Chaparral Technologies, Inc. headquartered in Longmont, CO, provides leading storage networking 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 has a strategic relationship with Adaptec Corporation, including equity participation, and recently completed the acquisition of Adaptec's External Storage Systems Division. Chaparral's family of external RAID controllers A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. is designed for industry-leading performance and complete data protection for departmental and enterprise storage markets. The product family includes 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. and Fibre Channel offerings, all with advanced configurations and management interfaces, as well as high-availability features such as automated fail-over, parity-protected memory and hot-swappable components. Chaparral's Intelligent Storage Routers 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). markets. The products incorporate Fibre Channel and SCSI technologies to build clustering, remote vaulting vaulting Gymnastics exercise in which the athlete leaps over a form that was originally intended to mimic a horse. At one time, the pommel horse was used in the vaulting exercise, with the pommels (handles) removed. , data migration and enterprise backup applications. The Chaparral family of products meets users' needs for high performance and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and ensures seamless connectivity across disk, tape and optical systems. Chaparral recently announced plans to integrate Intelliguard's Celestra(tm) Power agent into Chaparral's Enabler family of intelligent storage routers to deliver the ultimate in high-speed backup solutions over Fibre Channel. Additional information about Chaparral and its products can be found at http://www.chaparraltec.com. |
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