James Duncan CTO of WW Sales, Inktank

Inktank Storage, Inc. announced three new hires to its growing
management team: CTO James Duncan; VP, Professional Services, Russell Kojima;
VP, Marketing, Debbie Moynihan.

As CTO for Inktank, James Duncan will be responsible for
ensuring that engineering and product management capabilities are as efficient
and scalable as the Ceph technology. He will also play a role in
evangelizing Ceph with the market and community. Prior to joining Inktank, he
served as CTO, Worldwide Sales, at Joyent, a cloud computing software and
services company. At Joyent, he was instrumental in driving the company’s
product evolution and global expansion. He’s also currently a Mentor at
the FounderFuel start-up accelerator program.

"The Ceph storage platform is an incredible piece of
technology, and I’m excited to join the team at Inktank as we continue to build
out Ceph to its full potential and help companies of all sizes to meet their
ever-growing storage needs," said Duncan.

Inktank also announced that it has hired Russell Kojima as VP,
Professional Services. Most recently he was COO at cloud computing company
ForceBrain.com. Previously, he acquired his broad professional services and
open source expertise through his senior positions at Kaltura, hiSoft
Technology, IBM and SugarCRM.

In addition, Inktank has hired Debbie Moynihan as VP, Marketing. Prior
to joining Inktank, she served as VP of Marketing and Community at FuseSource,
an open-source integration and messaging company that was recently acquired by
Red Hat. Her previous experience includes positions at IONA Technologies and
IBM.

"Since launching Inktank this year, we have searched
extensively for talent to build out our growing management team," said
Bryan Bogensberger, president and COO at Inktank. "We are pleased to
welcome James Duncan, Russell Kojima, and Debbie Moynihan to the team. In
addition to boosting our geek cred, their expertise in distributed systems,
cloud and open source will be invaluable to our continued work on Ceph."