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Attune Systems Adds Storage Veteran Francesco Lacapra to its Seasoned Technology Advisory Board

Santa Clara, Calif. – March 6, 2007 – Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file virtualization solutions, today announced the addition of storage industry veteran Francesco Lacapra to its advisory board. Lacapra has been with Attune Systems since the early development stages of the Maestro File Manager™, and his 25-year storage design and software development expertise helped the company successfully launch its solutions last year.

“Attune has established a leadership position in the newly emerging file virtualization market, and I am excited to see the company grow its customer base so quickly,” said Lacapra. “I am delighted to continue to be part of the Attune team, because there is no greater satisfaction for an engineer than to see the product he has developed gain momentum across the marketplace by addressing critical customer needs.”

The Attune advisory board includes storage and networking industry visionaries with impressive track records at both start-ups and large companies. The Attune advisory board members are:

  • Rick Bahr, vice president of engineering for Atheros Communications. Bahr was formerly the vice president of engineering for the high-end server and supercomputer efforts at SGI. In that role, he led engineering in California and the former Cray hardware teams in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

  • Francesco Lacapra, chief technology officer and co-founder of stealth mode startup Maxiscale, Inc. Formerly chief technology officer and vice president of advanced technology for Attune Systems, Lacapra has also served as the director of software development for the U.S. team of BlueArc Corporation, where he led the development of the BlueArc cluster technology. Prior to this, he held management positions with Sanera Systems and Quantum Corporation's SNAP Division.

  • Richie Lary, a Compaq fellow. Lary’s background includes positions as a storage architect at Digital Equipment Corporation, technical director of Digital's Storage Business Unit, and technical director of Compaq's Storage Products Division. Lary was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Server I/O Conference in January 2000.

  • Talat Sadiq, the former CIO of drugstore.com. Previously, Sadiq was the CIO of Nextcard Inc., the first Internet-based credit card company and, before that, worked at Citicorp in London, where he architected and deployed Global Trading and Risk management systems.

  • Shmuel Shottan, senior vice president and CTO of BlueArc. Shottan was formerly senior vice president of engineering and chief technical officer for Quantum Corporation's Snap Division. Under his direction, the award-winning Snap Server garnered 80 percent of the rapidly developing market for entry-level network-attached storage systems.

 

About Attune Systems

Attune Systems’ solutions reduce file management complexity for enterprise storage environments while slashing operating costs and increasing scalability. The company’s flagship product, the Maestro File Manager, is a file virtualization appliance that helps IT administrators discover, analyze, manage and optimize their existing, heterogeneous file storage resources without impacting end users. Attune’s investors include Alloy Ventures, GF Private Equity Group, LLC, QTV Capital, Rock Creek Capital, RWI Ventures, Shea Ventures, and Shoreline Venture Management. For more information, please call 877-GO-ATTUNE (877-462-8886) or visit the company’s website at www.attunesystems.com.

Attune and Maestro File Manager are trademarks or registered trademarks of Attune Systems, Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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Attune Systems. Inc.
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