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DAFS Collaborative Appoints Storage Industry Veteran as Executive Director
Sunnyvale, CA - July 31, 2000 -- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a main sponsor of the Direct Access File System (DAFS) Collaborative, today announced the appointment of storage industry veteran Werner Glinka as the Executive Director of the DAFS Collaborative. Glinka was chosen for his experience in leading industry collaborations as well as his extensive international standards background.
"Werner's organizational abilities, experience with numerous international standards and ad-hoc industry working groups and his excellent relationships with industry analysts and trade press give him the qualities needed to successfully facilitate the operation of the DAFS Collaborative," said Dale Fahrion, strategic marketing manager at Network Appliance.
Glinka, principal of the Glinka Company, a technology and marketing consultancy, has more than 24 years of storage industry experience. Prior to the Glinka Company, he led Hitachi's promotional and business efforts for DVD-RAM and multimedia products. He held similar positions at Sony and Maxoptix. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Fachhochschule Bochum in Germany.
The DAFS Collaborative
Network Appliance formed the DAFS Collaborative with Intel, Seagate, and industry leaders to make the DAFS protocol available to the industry. The group is soliciting industry review and feedback before the new file system is submitted to an appropriate standards body. More information on the specification, industry supporters, and technical detail is available on the group's Web site at www.DAFScollaborative.org.
Industry leaders in this collaborative effort include: Agilent Technologies, Adaptec, Inc., Ancor Communications, Inc., ATTO Technology, Inc., BROCADE, Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., Cisco Systems, Crossroads Systems, Earthlink, Eurologic Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Gadzoox Networks, Giganet, HighGround Systems, Intel Corporation, Landmark Graphics Corp., Media 100, NetLedger, Network Appliance, Inc., Oracle Corporation, QLogic Corp., Quantum|ATL, Red Hat, Inc., Seagate, Spectra Logic, StorageNetworks, Inc., Troika Networks, VA Linux Systems, and Vixel Corp.
The DAFS Collaborative will hold its first meeting in August; details to be announced.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S+P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp® solutions. NetApp Internet caching solutions (NetCache™ appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast, simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX®, Windows NT®, and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance™ filers and NetCache appliances are based on the company's innovative data access software known as the Data ONTAP™ operating system and standards-compliant hardware. |
