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Xiotech Names Richard Lary Corporate Fellow
Experienced, Popular Storage Industry Figure Joins Company's Senior Management Team
| Source: Xiotech Corporation
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN--(Marketwire - December 17, 2009) - Xiotech Corporation, an innovator in data
storage solutions, today announced that it has named Richard Lary to the
role of Corporate Fellow. He assumed the position on Dec. 7, and he will
play an integral role in developing and refining technologies and
strategies for the company's future.
"Richard Lary is truly one of the smartest and most innovative people in
our industry, and his record of achievement in data storage speaks for
itself," said Xiotech President and CEO Alan Atkinson. "We can't wait for
him to help us define and develop the next generations of our patented
Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology, and make sure we remain the
top innovator of solutions delivering superior storage value in existing
and emerging areas."
With 40 years of industry experience and 32 patents in processor and
storage system architecture and design to his name, Lary is a true
heavyweight in data storage. He began his career as a software engineer for
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and was a core member of the teams
that defined the VAX computer architecture and implemented the first VAX
computer. He joined DEC's Storage Business Unit in 1978, and was a key
architect of its Digital Storage Architecture and a primary implementer of
several of the hardware and firmware components of the related product
family. He worked his way up to the position of Storage Technical Director
for DEC, where he was responsible for technical oversight of the entire
corporate storage architecture and product line, and continued in that role
at Compaq. Since 2000, he has been an independent consultant and a
technical advisor to several emerging storage companies. For his
contributions, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 at the
Server I/O Conference, and he frequently speaks at industry events. He
holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of
New York University.
"I've done quite a bit of consulting for Xiotech over the last six years,
and I've been consistently impressed with the quality of their technology
and the strength of their technical team," said Lary. "When the opportunity
arose to join the company in a technical leadership role, I jumped at it."
"The addition of Richard Lary brings another experienced, innovative mind
to Xiotech and its management team," said Benjamin S. Woo, vice president
of storage systems research at IDC. "With his wealth of knowledge in
computing and storage, Lary will bring a valuable perspective to Xiotech as
it continues to bring its technologies to market. Xiotech is proving,
through this and the other changes to its leadership team this quarter,
that it is serious about increasing its profile and standing in the storage
industry in the months to come."
About Xiotech
Xiotech Corporation delivers the highest storage value available today
based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology. With ISE,
Xiotech® products deliver 100 percent usable storage capacity with no
drop in performance. Drives are fully utilized, provide more performance
with less hardware because of their efficiency and enable organizations to
scale their storage infrastructures up and out with unmatched flexibility.
Additionally, Xiotech significantly reduces storage operation and
management costs with the patented self-healing technology of ISE and the
industry's only five-year hardware warranty. Also, the ICON Manager user
interface integrates and automates storage operations across the array,
server and virtual machine layers. With these technologies, Xiotech stands
alone in its ability to lower an organization's total cost of ownership for
storage.
Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn., and maintains major facilities in
Colorado Springs, Colo. and Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit
www.xiotech.com, email info@xiotech.com or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.