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January 04, 2011

Whamcloud Hires Three Lustre Veterans

DANVILLE, Calif., Jan. 4 -- Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from worldwide high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, announced today the hiring of three key personnel as part of their stated goal to be the go-to group for Lustre on Linux for HPC. Bryon Neitzel, Andreas Dilger and Peter Jones, all well-known names in the Lustre community, will be continuing management, community and support roles for Lustre when they start at Whamcloud this month.

"We're bullish about where Lustre is headed. Recent attention from the community shows there is more interest and support than ever in moving the technology forward. We want to be the place people think of -- worldwide -- when they think of Lustre," said Brent Gorda, CEO and president of Whamcloud.

New Whamcloud Personnel

Bryon Neitzel, previously in charge of Lustre at Oracle, will be starting with Whamcloud at the end of January.

Andreas Dilger, the most visible and active member of the Lustre Community and well known technical architect, will start early in January.

Peter Jones, the long-time support manager for Lustre, will start mid-month.

About Whamcloud

Whamcloud is a venture-backed company formed from worldwide high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans focused on enabling unprecedented application scaling and information insight through the evolution of HPC storage technologies in collaboration with the world's most scalable computing centers. http://www.whamcloud.com.

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Source: Whamcloud, Inc.

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