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Technology Veteran Stephen Rizzone Appointed Chairman to Troika Networks Board of Directors
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- July 12, 2004 -- Troika Networks, Inc., the leading provider of the Network Storage Services Platform approach to SAN intelligence, announced today that the company appointed Stephen R. Rizzone chairman of the board of directors. Rizzone has more than 30 years of executive management, marketing, sales and entrepreneurial experience in the data communications hardware, networking hardware and software, silicon and optical components markets.
"We're pleased that Stephen has joined our board and accepted the position as chairman," said Bill Terrell, CEO and co-founder, Troika Networks. "His expertise in successfully guiding companies toward their corporate and product visions brings significant value to Troika as we develop and deliver an innovative approach for deploying advanced data management solutions into the enterprise."
Rizzone's past experiences include a position as chairman, president and CEO of Ortel Corporation, a leading developer of optoelectronic components for cable TV networks. Rizzone also has served as chairman, advisor, or investor to a variety of optics, semiconductor and wireless products companies, including Procom Technology, MemLink, Correlant Communications and Xponent. Rizzone currently serves on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance (LARTA).
"I am very impressed with Troika's technology and the experience and motivation of its people to bring to market a new model for deploying next-generation storage services and applications," Rizzone said. "The company has already achieved significant momentum via partnerships and early customer deployments. I look forward to contributing to the company's future successes."
Troika's other board members are Todd Jerry from Anthem Technology Ventures; Jennifer Fonstad from Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Tony Hung from Dynafund Ventures; Richard Crosby from Hamilton Apex Ventures; Lou Tomasetta from Vitesse Semiconductor, and Jim Cole from Windward Ventures.
Troika develops the Accelera Network Storage Services (NSS) Platform, a fabric-agnostic, network-based approach for enabling and optimizing next-generation storage networking applications. Troika's platform is currently shipping with storage management applications from StoreAge Networking Technologies Inc, including the company's comprehensive set of business continuity tools. The combined solution provides volume management and virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, migration and replication for heterogeneous Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs).
About Troika Networks
Troika Networks is the leading developer of the Network Storage Services Platform, which enables enterprises to leverage a new generation of advanced data management and protection solutions. Troika's affordable network-based platform is designed specifically for optimizing storage applications, giving customer unprecedented flexibility in choosing what new capabilities to add to their networks, while leveraging their existing infrastructure investment. For more information on the Accelera NSS Platform and Troika's technology please visit http://www.troikanetworks.com or contact the company at info@troikanetworks.com.
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