Storage Networking Veteran, Ahmet Houssein, New CEO at Silverback Systems.CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Silverback Systems, Inc., has named Ahmet Houssein, as its new 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. , starting immediately. Mr. Houssein was most recently with Adaptec as vice president and general manager of their Storage Solutions Group, where he implemented the company's end-to-end, storage solutions strategy, including the industry's first, serial-attached, 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. RAID and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output products. Mr. Houssein's experience and achievement at the systems and chip level is expected to be instrumental in further enhancing Silverback's market position with their family of IP-based, storage network access processors, iSNAP(R). "IP-based storage networking is at the proverbial 'tipping point' as it continues to gather momentum," said Mr. Houssein. "With Silverback's product and market position we are poised to ride the adoption curve, further establishing us as a premium storage and network solutions provider." In addition to his track record at Adaptec, Mr. Houssein was with Intel for several years as general manager of the Home Server Operations and as strategic marketing director for the Enterprise Server Group. Prior to that, he has also held senior management positions with Zenith Data Systems Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) was a division of Zenith founded in 1979 after Zenith acquired Heathkit, who had, at that time, recently entered the personal computer market. Zenith sold personal computers under both the Heath/Zenith and Zenith Data Systems names. and Bull HN. His involvement with industry standards groups will also directly benefit Silverback in their continued quest for growth and integration into the storage community at large. Mr. Houssein has served on the board of directors for 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 , 1997-1999, and on the steering committee for I2O (Intelligent I/O) A standard for offloading input and output to an auxiliary processor. The auxiliary processor (I/O processor) manages the data transfer while the CPU does something else. industry association, 1997-1998. About Silverback Systems Silverback Systems, Inc. designs, develops and markets iSNAP(R), storage network access processor product family, accelerating the adoption of IP storage networking. The company was founded in July 2000 and is based in Campbell, CA, with a design center in Rochester, MN. Current investors are China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB CDIB Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood ), Excelsior Venture Partners III LLC, a private equity fund managed by U.S. Trust, Gemini Israel Fund, Intel Communications Fund, JP Morgan Partners, Newbury Ventures, and Pitango Venture Capital. More information can be found at www.silverbacksystems.com. iSNAP is a registered trademark of Silverback Systems. |
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