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posted on 29 July 2008 16:35

Kirk Roller has left Wasabi Systems little more than three months after joining the firm as SVP for sales and marketing.

He joined Wasabi in mid-February from Emulex where he was the chief operating officer. On joining Wasabi he said: "I was impressed with the strategic vision, highly skilled and innovative engineering team and the product plans for 2008 and 2009. Wasabi has clearly established itself as an innovator and supplier to leading OEMs like Apple, Brocade, Equallogic (now Dell), Intel and Sun Microsystems and now we are applying that same expertise to our own branded product line - the first elements of which we will announce within the next few weeks."

Sure enough, on Feruary 27th, Wasabi announced its new VMX iSCSI SAN appliances. On April 4th it announced the release of its network storage operating system, Wasabi Storage Builder for iSCSI SAN v4.1. On May 29th it announced Storage Builder for NAS v3.0. Today Wasabi announced that the VMX iSCSI SAN appliance has received VMware ESX certification. That's a good-looking sequence of events.

Yet Kirk Roller has rolled out of the company and joined SunEdison, a privately-owned solar energy as its VP for sales. From a titular point of view the sequence is COO to SVP to VP; not a sequence to continue really.

It leaves a hole to be filled at Wasabi.

^{[Paul Warren, staff writer.]}