Avalanche Technology Adds Storage Marketing Veteran to Leadership Team

FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalanche Technology, Inc., a developer of ultra-high performance enterprise solid state storage, today introduced Bridget Warwick, former NetApp executive and most recently chief marketing officer with Nexenta, as the company's vice president of marketing.

Chartered with both product management and marketing at Avalanche, Warwick joins as the company ramps up development on its first generation of all flash array (AFA) products, leveraging its deep expertise in memory technology in combination with innovative integration with storage software.

"Bridget has an outstanding track record of success in both engineering and marketing with extensive experience in the storage systems space.  She is a great addition as we deliver our high performance enterprise solid state storage solutions in 2015," said Petro Estakhri, founder and CEO of Avalanche.  "We are very pleased to have her join the Avalanche team."

"The Avalanche storage vision combines deep industry expertise in the use of memory with best of breed enterprise class storage software to produce highly innovative, purpose-designed solid state storage arrays.  As flash prices continue to fall the benefits of all-silicon storage become compelling to IT departments challenged with the increase in performance-related storage problems. Problems that both all-disk and hybrid arrays fail to address," said Warwick. "I am delighted to join Avalanche and look forward to bringing our highly innovative solutions to market."

About Avalanche Technology
Avalanche is a disruptive storage technology company based in Fremont, CA.  The company is building innovative, purpose-designed, high-performance enterprise all flash arrays (AFA), leveraging its expertise in memory technology and extensive hardware and software integration.  Backed by top-tier investors and led by a veteran management team, Avalanche has amassed a distinctive portfolio of more than 200 cell, circuit, process and system patents.  Visit www.avalanche-technology.com for more information.  Twitter: @followavalanche

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