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Intransa Adds Solutions Visionary Leader to Its Executive Ranks with Ravi Pendekanti
SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- May 4, 2004 --
IP SAN leader lands Sun veteran as its vice president of marketing; Brings strategic marketing and open systems experience to further propel Intransa's market success
Intransa Inc., the global leader in intelligent IP SAN data storage, today announced the appointment of Ravi Pendekanti as vice president of marketing. The position reports directly to president and chief executive officer, Dr. Avi Katz, and will be responsible for managing Intransa's global marketing efforts.
"Ravi represents another stellar milestone in Intransa's corporate development. He has been a standout leader for Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and has consistently demonstrated an ability to profitably open markets to new products, services and corporate partnerships," said Dr. Avi Katz, president and CEO of Intransa. "Ravi's experience with open systems and market category creation will be instrumental in helping Intransa expedite its market opportunity, and delivering native IP SAN solutions to customers worldwide, today."
For the past seven years, Pendekanti served as a senior director of marketing at Sun Microsystems, leading the team responsible for Reference Architectures and Customer Ready Systems which form the core of its solutions offering. At Sun Microsystems, Pendekanti was also recognized with the "Chairman's Innovation Award" for his contributions leading to success in market positioning, strategy development, and for timely execution. "I am excited at joining Intransa, a true leader in the IP SAN space that is clearly growing by leaps and bounds," said Pendekanti. "It is also really nice to see the kind of exceptional talent and energy here at Intransa. This will be one awesome ride." Prior to working with Sun, he held various positions with Network General, Compuware and Hewlett Packard.
Using innovative architecture and sophisticated management software, Intransa's IP SAN enables customers to easily add storage capacity from 2 to 24 terabytes (TB), meeting the needs of high volume e-mail and collaborative environments such as Microsoft Exchange, databases, backup and restore software, and other mission-critical applications. Intransa's IP SAN provides IT administrators an attractive alternative to expensive Fibre Channel components by leveraging the network hardware commodity trend and the widespread knowledge of IP networking. The Intransa IP SAN facilitates the enterprise deployment of tiered and on-demand storage infrastructure.
About Intransa
Intransa, with headquarters in San Jose, California, is an innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage solutions that radically reduce the complexity of deploying scalable network storage. Based on advanced technology that leverages the cost and performance advantage of Ethernet and the ubiquity of IP networks, Intransa's products are enabling a new generation of information storage, delivery and management over IP networks. Founded in September 2000, Intransa has secured a total of $49 million in funding from 3Com, Advanced Technology Ventures, Sofinnova Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, US Venture Partners and a major pension fund. For more information visit www.intransa.com.
Intransa is a registered trademark of Intransa Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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