Tom Major President, Starboard Storage Systems

Starboard Storage Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of three technology executives: Tom Major as president, Chris Alaimo as VP of engineering, and Pat Petroskey as VP of customer service.

The new executives bring industry experience that will accelerate customer and channel acquisition, product roadmap delivery, and roll-out of customer service programs.

Tom Major joined from Seagate Technology, where he was SVP of product management and business operations. Before that, he worked at LeftHand Networks as CSO reporting to Bill Chambers. Previous positions included VP and GM, Disk Business Unit, at StorageTek and VP of network storage marketing at HP, where he spent 21 years.

"This is a great time to join Starboard Storage and I am truly looking forward to everything we have planned in 2013," said Major. "I have been watching the company for a while and I was impressed with the technology, the storage expertise of the team, and the quick adoption from large numbers of customers that have already deployed the Starboard Storage systems into production."

Chris Alaimo has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He joined Starboard from Tandberg Data, where he was senior director of engineering. He was co-founder of ProStor Systems, which was acquired by Tandberg Data and Imation in 2011. Before that, Alaimo held a senior management position at Quantum.

"I am pleased to join the Starboard team and help contribute to its ongoing engineering and development efforts," said Alaimo. "Starboard’s feature-rich hybrid storage products are changing the way enterprises are consolidating their storage today. Customers tell me that they are experiencing up to ten times the performance while reducing spinning disk counts by nearly 90 percent when consolidating their existing storage resources with Starboard Storage."

 Pat Petroskey joined from Oracle, where she managed a team of 385 global support engineers as senior director, Systems Technology Support Center, SAN/NAS, including the Oracle ZFS 7000 unified storage and Oracle Pillar SAN systems.  Before Oracle, she held senior-level positions at Sun Microsystems and StorageTek. Her career also includes tenures at SGI and Honeywell.

"I have participated in many customer calls at Starboard already and the feedback is very positive," said Petroskey. "They immediately see the difference that the Starboard flash-based appliances can make in their existing environments. Also, Starboard owns its unified hybrid storage intellectual properties versus other unified storage vendors that license file systems from Oracle ZFS. Starboard Storage customers can rely on us to develop, support, and enhance our Starboard OS quickly and responsively."

"This is an important step in the life our company as we are bringing on board top storage industry executives who are well-known for successfully building products and growing companies," said Bill Chambers, CEO of Starboard Storage. "I welcome them to the team and I am glad to have such positive news at the beginning of the year. We made significant progress since the company was launched a year ago, and we will share more news in the upcoming weeks."