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posted on 29 July 2008 12:16

Disaster Recovery and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) vendor InMage has recruited Peter O'Brien to strengthen its tier 1 hardware and software OEM relationships.

O'Brien has been appointed VP for business development and has a CV that looks like a 28-year long grand tour through the storage industry. There was a 12-year stint at Sun Microsystems, a 3-year OEM sales spell at Veritas, a senior director of sales position at Rhapsody Networks which was bought by Brocade in January, 2003, and positions with Mendocino, which closed down, and Sistina Software, bought by Red Hat.

Recently he was VP OEM sales for deduplication vendor Diligent which was bought by IBM earlier this year. InMage reckons he helped Diigent get OEM partnerships with Sun and Overland Storage. Although InMage has a strategic reseller relationship with Pillar Data and is a Sun principal ISV partner it would like to expand its OEM sales channel with the biggest and best hardware and software companies. That's O'Brien's job plus creating new business and revenue opportunities generally.

John Ferraro, InMage Systems' president and CEO, said: "We are thrilled to have an executive of Peter's caliber join InMage's business development team. Peter has been instrumental to the success of many pioneering young companies, with an outstanding record for taking sales and growth to the next level. We are confident he will play a significant role at InMage, building opportunities for our flagship DR-Scout business continuity and disaster recovery solution."

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