JMR Appoints New EMEA Sales Manager, Prepares to Bring BlueStor to the International Market at IBC 2009


CHATSWORTH, California, August 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK-based industry veteran with 20 years of broadcast and data storage 
expertise to lead JMR's international sales

JMR Electronics, Inc. (http://www.jmr.com/), a leading value provider of
scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, today
announced the upcoming global expansion of the company by naming a new EMEA
sales manager, Iain Pickthall. JMR is now poised to introduce their
BlueStor(TM) line of video storage products 
(http://www.jmr.com/storagetechnology.html) to markets in Europe, the Middle 
East and Asia, and will launch their international presence at IBC 2009 
(http://www.ibc.org/) in Amsterdam.

Pickthall's experience with broadcast and data storage industries spans
more than two decades; he has previously worked in both sales and marketing
for several start-up companies in addition to market-leading multinational
NASDAQ companies. Additionally, he has also worked with key OEM partners in
the EMEA region developing sales, integration and customer development.

"We are pleased to have Iain Pickthall join JMR as our EMEA sales
director, as our readiness and ability to promote and build the JMR brand
internationally will be best served by adding Pickthall's expertise to our
team," said Josef Rabinovitz, President and CEO of JMR Electronics, Inc. "For
more than 25 years, JMR has established itself in the US as a leading storage
industry innovator. We have developed several proven and reliable storage
technologies for the broadcast and video post-production markets in the last
18 months, and the market timing is right for JMR to create a strong global
customer and technology partner base," he added.

"JMR's long history of achievements in the data storage space, in
addition to the gaining popularity of its BlueStor family of solutions, is an
impressive foundation from which my sales and marketing abilities can be of
value to the company overseas," said Pickthall. "I look forward to helping
JMR flourish in the EMEA market, and am excited to take part in the company's
formal introduction to the global marketplace during their first visit to IBC
this year."

For EMEA sales inquiries, Pickthall may be reached by phone at 
+44-7760-768690 or by e-mail at iain.pickthall@jmr.com.

IBC is the leading international forum for the electronic media industry,
attracting thousands of exhibitors from more than 130 countries. The 2009
conference and exhibition will take place at RAI Centre in Amsterdam. JMR
Electronics, Inc. will be showcasing their BlueStor products in Hall 7, Stand
G14 from September 10th through the 15th.

About JMR Electronics, Inc.

JMR is the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for
performance, capacity and availability driven applications in the government,
rich media, VOD, video surveillance and Web 2.0 markets. As a pioneering
leader in high performance RAID storage technologies since 1982, JMR's
complete line of BlueStor PeSAN(TM) DAS 
(http://jmr.com/storagetechnology_html/PeSanPcieRaid.html), NAS and SAN 
solutions are ideal for nearly every IT and video production need. For more 
information about JMR or the BlueStor product line, visit www.jmr.com or 
contact the company at +1-818-993-4801, or sales@jmr.com.

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