LONDON, October 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Expert Bob Watson Appointed Storage Sales Director of EMEA

Gresham Enterprise Storage, the leading developer of data protection
solutions with vision, has appointed Bob Watson as Storage Sales Director of
EMEA based in London. In this newly created position, Watson will be
responsible for increasing market penetration in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa by building an integrated sales and reseller partnerships program for
Gresham Enterprise Storage aimed at enterprise-level IT accounts looking to
reduce storage cost.

Watson joins Gresham Enterprise Storage as a 35 year IT veteran who, most
recently, consulted for United States startups within EMEA in the fields of
Wide Area File Services and Network Attached Storage. Prior to that, he spent
20 years with Hitachi Data Systems where he held the position of Senior Vice
President of Sales, and doubled revenues to US$607 million in four years.

"Bob's personality, expertise and professional relationships will help
Gresham's enterprise data protection solutions gain traction in EMEA," said
Gary Gibbs, EVP of Gresham Enterprise Storage. "We are pleased that Bob
joined Gresham and we look forward to the progress he will make in Europe,
the Middle East and Africa as well as the visibility he will add to our
already established and growing brand."

"I am attracted to Gresham's ability to fuse unprecedented performance
with extreme simplicity while managing all tape assets -- whether real or
virtual -- throughout the enterprise. As requirements for backup and restore
increase, usually against a backdrop of reduced timing windows, Gresham has
emerged as the choice for companies operating in large and complex
environments," said Watson. "I am looking forward to contributing to our
growth and success in EMEA."

About Gresham Clareti VTL

Gresham Clareti VTL is the only open systems virtual tape library
solution with integrated data protection management, heterogeneous (physical
and virtual) tape library consolidation, and unified media management to make
backup/restore operations more efficient.

About Gresham Clareti EDT

Gresham Clareti EDT software delivers visibility into Tivoli Storage
Manager environments to dramatically improve tape library resource
utilization and simplify media management.

About Gresham Enterprise Storage

Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision,
combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly
scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating
costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global
500 and the world's largest data centers, use Gresham Clareti VTL and Clareti
EDT solutions to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve
their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments
cost-effectively to gain a competitive edge in some of the most challenging
market sectors, including banking and finance. For more information, please
visit http://www.greshamstorage.com.

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