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Technology
Veteran Stephen Rizzone Appointed Chairman to Troika Networks Board
of Directors
July 12, 2004
Yahoo! Finance
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.
Contact:
Troika Networks, Inc.
Ben Kuo, 805-427-4580
benk@troikanetworks.com
or
Eastwick Communications
Kim Amsbaugh, 650-480-4037
kim@eastwick.com
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