[March 10, 2014]

StorMagic Names Matthew Durkin EVP of Sales

StorMagic^®, a leading provider of enterprise-class software-defined storage for virtual server environments, today announced that it has hired Matthew Durkin as its new Executive Vice President of Sales. He will lead and oversee all global sales efforts for the company's industry-leading SvSAN virtual storage software, and serve on the StorMagic executive management team.

Durkin comes to StorMagic from Dell's (News - Alert) Compellent business unit, where he led business development for the company's health care group. Before that, he served as president and CEO for three companies over a decade: virtual tape company Neartek Inc., facilities software company Centerstone Software and database software company Terascape Software. He was responsible for worldwide sales at Data General's CLARiiON business unit, and grew sales from $14 million to $700 million prior to the business unit's acquisition by EMC (News - Alert). He also was the 17^th employee hired at EM Corporation, where he served as a product marketing and sales executive and helped drive the company's explosive growth.

"Matt has a long track record of success helping companies grow and evolve into market leaders, and will fit right in with our growth and results-oriented culture," said Hans O'Sullivan, CEO of StorMagic. "He will play a vital role in helping us drive adoption of our leading SvSAN solution and continue our rapid corporate growth."

"StorMagic has an amazing, software-only virtualized shared storage solution that's solving a lot of availability challenges in edge environments - from smaller chains to retailers with thousands of stores running business critical applications," said Durkin. "There's tremendous potential for StorMagic to be the next great data storage company, and I'm looking forward to turning that potential into reality."

About StorMagic

StorMagic offers SvSAN, a software solution which enables enterprises to eliminate downtime of business critical applications at the edge, where this disruption directly equates to a loss in service and revenue.

SvSAN ensures high availability through a virtualized shared storage platform, so that business critical edge applications remain operational.

StorMagic's typical customer has anywhere between 10 - 10,000 edge sites, where local IT resource is not available, but uptime of applications is a must.

Established in 2006, StorMagic was founded and is led by an experienced and successful team whose combined backgrounds include development and marketing of pioneering technology. The company's international offices are located in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. With a worldwide network of reseller and industry partners, customers can rest assured that support is readily available.

For more information, visit www.stormagic.com.

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