SANgate Systems Names Paul Feresten Vice President of Sales and Marketing; Company Adds Storage Industry Veteran to Management Team.Business/Technology Editors SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2000 SANgate Systems, innovators of the first intelligent SAN solution to connect dissimilar storage network environments, today announced that Paul Feresten has been appointed Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In this position, Feresten will oversee all product management, strategic marketing, brand communications and worldwide sales initiatives. "Paul joins our senior management team at a very exciting time," said Alan S. Davis, President 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. of SANgate Systems. "We are the only data storage management company that is fully addressing Enterprise SANs by providing interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. between OS/390 and open systems storage. We will leverage Paul's expertise in building substantial sales and marketing organizations to further establish SANgate Systems as leaders in the explosive storage networking arena." "Companies are growing their data storage at unprecedented rates," added Feresten. "Environments are increasing in complexity, data is more critical than ever to business, and qualified personnel are in short supply. The drive in the market has been toward consolidation and heterogeneity het·er·o·ge·ne·i·ty n. The quality or state of being heterogeneous. heterogeneity the state of being heterogeneous. , yet there has been no attempt by vendors to address the whole Enterprise. SANgate Systems will gain a real foothold in the data storage management market and I welcome the opportunity to help make that happen." Feresten brings proven market development, branding mastery, and broad sales experience to SANgate Systems, including over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. in key management roles at Digital Equipment Corporation. While Vice President of Sales and Marketing for DEC's storage business unit, Feresten created the highly successful StorageWorks brand and grew the business to over $2 billion. Most recently, Feresten was Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for TRIMM TRIMM Transmit/Receive Integrated Microwave Module Technologies, Inc., a global supplier of storage subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. and enclosures. About SANgate Systems SANgate Systems is developing a powerful and highly intelligent new platform with routing, switching and application server capabilities. Its unique design will solve major interoperability, performance and scalability issues found in existing enterprise storage area network architectures and products. SANgate Systems was founded in 1999 with corporate headquarters in Southborough, MA and additional offices in Even Yehuda, Israel. Former EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and 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) engineers with over 40 years of combined experience developing commercially successful data storage products and technologies lead our development team. SANgate Systems is privately owned, with funding from Battery Ventures of Boston, MA and Jerusalem Venture Partners of Israel. |
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