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posted on 25 April 2008 09:20

Wasabi Systems today announced that Ray Freer has joined its team as Vice President, Manufacturing Engineering.

Ray comes to Wasabi from Flextronics International Ltd., where he was Director of System Program Management. Ray brings nearly 20 years of product development, technical project management and strategic planning expertise to Wasabi's executive ranks.

"I look forward to driving our network storage appliance products forward," he said. "Wasabi's new VMX iSCSI SAN appliance is an evolutionary step in the storage industry and I am excited to bring my past hardware and manufacturing experiences to provide product excellence."

"Ray is an asset to our team and we are excited to have him aboard," said Frank Logan, Wasabi's President and CEO. "Ray has an impressive track record of product planning and delivery, developing numerous innovative, industry-first products. I am pleased to add his vision and creativity to our world-class team."

Prior to Flextronics, Ray held various senior level management positions with Hewlett-Packard, 3Com Corporation and Compaq. He explains why he set his sights on Wasabi. "The company leadership and the strategic product visions made this the best opportunity for me to leverage my past experiences, he said. " I wanted to help propel the next wave of the storage market, and Wasabi is where it's at."

Wasabi Storage Builder and iSCSI Technology
Wasabi Storage Builder® for iSCSI SANs enables OEMs and systems builders to transform off-the-shelf hardware into cost-effective iSCSI SAN storage systems. A complete turnkey software solution pre-installed on a bootable compact flash, Wasabi Storage Builder for iSCSI SAN runs on standard open systems server motherboards utilizing either Intel IA32 & EM64T or AMD64 compatible CPUs and supports 3ware, LSI Logic, and Intel RAID controllers. Wasabi Storage Builder opens new windows to the high-growth SME market with iSCSI storage solutions that provide the security, scalability, and flexibility advantages of iSCSI SAN.

About Wasabi
We work hard to provide our customers with the best iSCSI network storage products available. We believe that network storage should be invisible to you if it's working properly. It should be easy to buy, easy to install and easy to manage. In fact, our ultimate goal is to make it so that network storage is largely self-managing and self-configuring.

Our team of world-class engineers has a remarkable background in developing storage software as a trusted partner for some of the largest companies in the world including Apple, Brocade, Equallogic, Intel and Sun Microsystems.

Our investors include Scorpion, Newlight Associates, Hudson Ventures, Himalaya Capital and Intel Capital.

To learn more about Wasabi Systems, visit www.WasabiSystems.com.

^{[Formatted by Majid Soltani.]}