PRESS RELEASE
Verari Systems Names Victor W. Tung Vice President, Engineering
Fourteen year EMC veteran joins senior management team to capitalize on growth opportunities and drive competitive differentiation
By Mike LaPan (858) 874-3800
San Diego, Calif. - April 22, 2008 -- Verari Systems, the premier developer of energy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based compute and storage solutions, today announced that Victor W. Tung has been appointed vice president, engineering. Tung will focus on helping accelerate Verari Systems' key growth and efficiency initiatives leveraging his deep background in product development, testing and quality assurance, and will play a key role in setting strategic technology directions for the company.
"Verari Systems' solutions are on the cutting-edge on some of the industry's most important technology trends including exponential storage growth and the emergence of Web 2.0 and grid markets," said David B. Wright, chairman and CEO, Verari Systems. "Victor's proven leadership ability combined with extensive management and engineering experience will be instrumental as Verari Systems' drives its long-term, global strategic initiatives, which include rapidly deploying scalable, data center and energy efficient storage products."
Prior to joining Verari Systems, Tung served as vice president of engineering at DataDirect Networks Inc., an enterprise storage solution provider. Tung joined DataDirect Networks from EMC, where he spent 14 years and directed the core intelligence of EMC's Flagship Symmetrix Engineering to deliver enterprise storage systems to the market.
"I look forward to being a key player on Verari Systems' executive engineering team and helping the company maintain its momentum as a leader in blade storage and energy efficient platforms such as its award-winning BladeRack® 2 X-Series and transportable FOREST Container," said Tung. "As Verari Systems continues to enable next-generation IT infrastructures, it is important to sustain the technological edge in cooling, density, virtualization and data center management services that we enjoy today."
Tung is the holder of 13 patents on storage and data protection, and is an author of numerous technical papers. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, where he graduated cum laude from the Honor's Program.
About Verari Systems
Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of energy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based compute and storage solutions that are defining a new era in the green data center. Verari Systems is a market leader in blade storage and energy efficient platforms. Organizations such as Wachovia, Akamai, Microsoft, Qualcomm, CGGVeritas, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Sony Imageworks, as well as top universities and research institutions worldwide, are among the customers who have chosen Verari Systems' line of award-winning high density blade storage and servers, rack-optimized platforms and software solutions. To learn more about Verari Systems and its unique solutions, please visit us on the web http://www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.
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