Crossroads Forms Federal Sales Unit, Advisory Board

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced the creation of a Federal Sales Unit as aided by a newly-formed Federal Business Advisory Board.

The unit and board are tasked with providing mission solutions to help address the growing data access and archive needs for public sector organizations.

StrongBox, a shared storage archive, delivers data protection and reliability. It’s an enterprise storage solution to leverage LTFS technology, allowing a responsive tape storage system to walk and talk like expensive disk-based storage.

It addresses three of the federal government’s
top data archiving priorities, including:

• Vendor-Neutrality – The ability to use any libraries and disk without concern of becoming locked-in to any one provider
• Reduced Environmental Impact – Reductions in power and cooling requirements
• Assured Data Retention – Self-monitoring to ensure long-term, cost effective data retention

Crossroads has focused its go-to-market efforts in businesses and sectors that create large content information that is integral to the business mission and its operations. Video production, imaging, and video surveillance solutions have demonstrated workflow solutions that are ideal to the public sector markets and their mission operations.

Crossroads named the first two independent members
of its new Federal Business Advisory Board:

• Jeffrey K. Harris – A consultant for defense and intelligence sectors and member of the United States Energy Security Council, he formerly was a corporate officer at Lockheed Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space, and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
• John P. Stenbit – A consultant for the space, defense, IT and security sectors, he formerly served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence and its successor organization, Networks and Information Integration. Those positions included his role as the CIO for the Department of Defense.

"The big data movement requires improved reliability, manageability and cost-effective performance to achieve a workflow-driven, scalable archive with data access to best enable big data analytic discovery," Harris said. "Strongbox technologies can be an important enabler in an open enterprise."

"As the requirements for storage of data gathered by the government continue to increase, new concepts are needed to efficiently keep those data available for analysis," Stenbit said. "With the budgets for all of government getting tighter, cost is a demanding condition of effective solutions for such archiving."

"Crossroads is pleased to announce the formation of our Federal Sales Unit and its advisory board," said David Cerf, EVP of corporate and business development at Crossroads. "I especially wish to thank the members of our new advisory board, as their knowledge and experience in the public sector will serve as a great asset as we continue to expand StrongBox’s reach within the federal government. StrongBox offers a game-changing approach to data archiving, as it significantly reduces data archiving costs, drastically decreases power consumption, and provides for data storage that remains reliable for decades. The formation of this unit reflects Crossroads’ belief that the public sector will highly value StrongBox due to its non-proprietary, file-based and fully portable shared storage capabilities across the enterprise."

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