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SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - January 21, 2009) - Virtual Instruments, provider
of the award-winning NetWisdom
storage area network (SAN) optimization solution, today announced Len Rosenthal
has joined the company as vice president of marketing. Rosenthal will be
responsible for Virtual Instruments' overall marketing strategy and
implementation, including product marketing, corporate marketing and
marketing communications.
News Highlights
-- Rosenthal brings more than 23 years of marketing strategy, product
marketing and business development experience to his role at Virtual
Instruments.
-- Rosenthal joins from Panasas, where he served as
chief marketing officer. He was responsible for driving global marketing
strategies to accelerate the adoption of Panasas' clustered, parallel
storage solutions in High Performance Computing (HPC) markets.
-- Before his role at Panasas, Rosenthal co-founded PathScale, which he helped build into
one of the most successful InfiniBand technology suppliers. The company was
acquired by QLogic, and
Rosenthal became vice president of marketing at QLogic's System
Interconnect Group.
-- His experience also includes senior marketing and product line
management roles at Silicon Graphics Computer
Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Inktomi
Corporation.
-- Rosenthal has an MBA from the Haas Business School at the University of
California at Berkeley, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Economics from the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School.
Quotes
From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "Len is an important addition
to our team. His deep product and corporate marketing expertise in the
storage, systems and networking industries will help expand our global
presence, and accelerate company growth."
From Len Rosenthal, Vice President of Marketing, Virtual Instruments: "As
virtualization and cloud computing continue to transform the data center,
Virtual Instruments has a unique opportunity to solve underserved customer
pain points at the intersection of storage, networking and IT systems
management. I look forward to drawing from my extensive storage and systems
background and working with Virtual Instruments' strategic partners and
customers to continue addressing the needs of this new market opportunity."
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments' award-winning NetWisdom solution monitors
application-to-SAN transaction performance -- with deep insight and data
not available from other solutions. Customers such as Barclay's Card
Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost
savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization,
performance and availability. Leading system and storage vendors including
IBM, HP and EMC leverage NetWisdom to design SAN solutions for enterprise
customers. Virtual Instruments was founded in June 2008 via the spin-out
from Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ : FNSR ); it has headquarters in Scotts Valley,
Calif., and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com.
