Paula Long Board’s Advisor, StorSimple

StorSimple,
provider of Windows optimized cloud storage technology, announced the
appointment of Paula Long to the StorSimple Board of Advisors. Long, who
co-founded storage provider EqualLogic, brings a wealth of experience
at growing companies by delivering innovative, market changing storage
technology.

"Paula brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, exceptional success and industry experience to our Board," said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple CEO. "She
built a company from the ground up and took it through a very
successful acquisition. We have aggressive expectations for 2011 and
beyond, and we look forward to leveraging her expertise to help us
continue growing our business and penetrating the storage market with
innovative hybrid cloud storage technologies aimed at Microsoft
environments."

 Paula
has held numerous technical leadership positions at a variety of
technology companies. She has won several awards for Entrepreneurship,
including New Hampshire High Tech Council Entrepreneur of the year
award, the Ernst & Young’s 2008 Northeast Regional Entrepreneur of
the Year and a National Finalist for the same award. Paula is currently
the VP of Product Development at Heartland Robotics. Prior to
Heartland Paula was Co-Founder and EVP of Products and Strategy at
EqualLogic which was acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008. Paula remained at Dell as VP of Storage, focused on the EqualLogic Product Line until January of 2010.

Long joins the StorSimple Board of Advisors and Directors that includes
notable industry names including Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures,
Mike Volpi & Bernard Dalle of Index Ventures, Jayshree Ullal of
Arista Networks, Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund and Richard Fade of
Ignition Partners.

"Cloud computing is well known as one of the hottest technology
topics of the last few years, and its potential to change the storage
industry is just starting to be felt," said Paula Long. "The
StorSimple team has industry changing products that leverage the best of
the cloud and on site storage. I look forward to working with them to
build out their strategy and help the company continue on the path to
success."

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Formerly VP engineering for Dell Storage Group and co-founder of EqualLogic