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Contact Agency: Judy Smith JPR Communications 818-386-0403 judys@jprcom.com |
Contact Client: Caroline Mead Vice President, Sales & Marketing 650-316-5925 caroline@dinostor.com |
GLOBAL AUTOMATION LAUNCHES NEW DIVISION TO DELIVER NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK BACKUP
DinoStor to bring advanced backup technology to NAS users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 15, 2002 - Global Automation, Inc., a provider of custom mission-critical enterprise software applications for Fortune 500 clients, today announced the creation of a new division focused on delivering advanced solutions for network backup.
DinoStor is leveraging technology developed by Global Automation to bring a new approach for effective and quick backup of critical information across networks. The first DinoStor products will build on the expertise of Global Automation in addressing enterprise requirements of its corporate customers, such as Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Oracle, Compaq and Sun Microsystems. DinoStor's technology will offer an innovative solution that overcomes many of the limitations of current network backup architectures in a turnkey commercial solution.
Srini Sankaran, founder and CEO of Global Automation, will head DinoStor as president and CEO. Sankaran founded Global Automation in 1990 and expanded the company from a garage startup to a multinational enterprise, and has more than 15 years of experience building enterprise software, networks and storage systems. DinoStor has appointed Tim Gardner, one of the creators of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), as its chief technology officer and Caroline Q. Mead joins the company as vice president of sales and marketing after 12 years with Amdahl and Fujitsu.
"Despite its critical importance, network backup is often an afterthought when companies develop their network storage infrastructures," said Sankaran. "DinoStor will empower corporations to safeguard their existing investment in backup hardware and software with a powerful technology that brings new levels of management, flexibility and performance to the network backup market."
Sankaran revealed that DinoStor's initial products are targeted at solving the critical backup problems for Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments. IDC estimates that NAS will account for about 28 percent of the overall disk storage systems market by 2004, up from just 6 percent last year, and the Yankee Group predicts that by 2005 the majority of all storage deployed will be networked.
The rapid growth of the NAS market - combined with the astounding appetite for storage fueled by new storage-intensive applications - has outpaced the industry's ability to provide backup solutions that address the ease of management, performance, and high-availability demands of network storage environments. The DinoStor solution to NAS backup is a non-disruptive technology that will allow customers to achieve improved utilization and supercharged speeds without abandoning their existing NAS backup infrastructure.
"The current NAS backup offerings only solve a piece of the overall data backup and protection challenges facing IT administrators," said Sankaran. "The widespread adoption of Gigabit Ethernet and other advances have opened the door for the next generation of NAS backup technology, and DinoStor is primed to deliver those solutions."
DinoStor plans to announce and have its first product available for customer delivery later this quarter. The company will make it products available through both reseller and OEM channels.
About DinoStor
DinoStor is a subsidiary of Global Automation, Inc., a company that has dominated the enterprise application development landscape for more than 10 years. Global Automation has offices in the US and India. Through Global Automation's experience in providing Fortune 500 clients with customized software-based solutions, it has developed technology to address the increasing need for effective and manageable network backup. DinoStor was formed to produce and market this technology for a larger audience, and to broaden the Global Automation family of services, expertise and human resources. Reseller and OEMs interested in learning more about the DinoStor products should contact Caroline Mead at 650-316-5925. DinoStor is available online at http://www.dinostor.com or by phone at 800-420-DINO.