i/o Taps IT Industry Leader as New Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

PHOENIX, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- i/o, the leading provider of digital energy technology, today announced the appointment of Anthony J. D'Ambrosi in the newly created global role of Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Mr. D'Ambrosi is responsible for driving the company's sales and marketing vision, brand, strategy and organization, as i/o expands its digital energy technology footprint across the enterprise data center market worldwide.

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During his 24 years of multinational information and communications technology leadership experience, Mr. D'Ambrosi held senior positions at Reuters, Hewlett-Packard, Deutsche Telekom T-Systems and ACS. Throughout his career, he has played a key role in global technology operations and vertical industry solutions practices.

On making the announcement, i/o CEO George Slessman said, "Anthony brings a unique blend of subject matter expertise in the successful marketing, sale and delivery of enterprise-wide IT products, services and solutions. His winning track record and ability to commercialize, market, and sell solutions on a global scale is well aligned with our commitment to serve our large enterprise customers and our global expansion."

"The ever-increasing demand in the global enterprise data center and cloud computing market is perfectly aligned with our business model, technology platform and track record of success with Global 2000 clientele. I am excited to join the team at i/o and take our already rapid growth in the digital energy technology market to the next level," said Mr. D'Ambrosi. "i/o has the best growth platform the IT industry has to offer and is uniquely positioned to be the sole provider of scalable enterprise data center solutions delivered both as a product and as a service."

Mr. D'Ambrosi joins i/o from CIBER where he was Chief Operating Officer of the global ITO Division. Mr. D'Ambrosi led the global strategy, business development and delivery operations for the ITO Division line of business spanning end-user computing, infrastructure as a service, network and data center operations, managed application hosting and security operations.

Mr. D'Ambrosi's appointment comes a week after AboveNet extended its dedicated fiber network to i/o's modular data center in Edison, N.J. i/o was able to power and globally connect i/o NEW JERSEY in less than 60 days due to its modular data center platform, which includes 100 percent of the critical infrastructure required for an always-on data center.

About i/o

i/o designs, engineers, and delivers digital energy technology for the world's largest enterprises, governments, and service providers.

Digital energy technology is a platform of integrated data center infrastructure hardware and software designed, engineered and manufactured by i/o to deliver an "always-on" energy system for mission-critical information technology.

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