socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix has hired on a storage veteran as VP of Sales, saying today that Joseph Lyons has joined the firm. Lyon joins the company from Brocade Communications, where he was Director of Services Sales for the Americas. The venture-backed firm competes against Amazon's S3 storage services. READ MORE>>.

Sales

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Genereux was most recently at Nirvanix, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Prior to QLogic, Genereux was at DataDirect Networks (DDN), also serving as VP Sales, Marketing, and Support, and has previously served at Hitachi Data Systems. READ MORE>>.

Windward

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Startup

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.), First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. application services (security, integration), etc.

Platform