Nasuni Expands Management Team by Appointing Jennifer Sullivan as Vice President of Marketing

The Addition of Sullivan, a Marketing Veteran with Two Decades of Technology Industry Experience, Follows a Year of Remarkable Growth for the Cloud Storage Gateway Company

Natick, MA – March 7, 2011 – Nasuni®, creator of the storage industry’s leading cloud gateway, today announced that it has expanded its management team with the addition of Jennifer Sullivan as the company’s vice president of marketing. The expansion follows a year of extraordinary growth for Nasuni and a particularly strong fourth quarter in which the company expanded its customer base by 200 percent, adding customers from a wide range of vertical industries such as manufacturing, engineering and architecture, law, education and healthcare.

At Nasuni, Sullivan will work collaboratively with sales, business development and engineering to create data-driven marketing strategies that accelerate customer demand. With two decades of experience in technology marketing, Sullivan has served in a wide variety of organizations, from large established companies such as IBM and RSA Security, to several venture-backed, fast growing startups.

“I thrive on tackling the challenges of young, high-performance companies like Nasuni,” Sullivan said.  “My primary goal is always to translate innovative technology into accessible messages that immediately communicate business value to potential customers. What attracted me to Nasuni was the team, the Founders and Board, and the capability of the Nasuni Filer to take full advantage of what will clearly be a transformative technology, but do so in a way that makes the entire process so simple for end-users. Through an easy download process, it just takes minutes to start reaping the benefits of cloud storage and with the Nasuni Filer the ripple effect of managing storage is greatly simplified and reduced for IT.”

Immediately prior to joining Nasuni, Sullivan served as CMO at Ounce Labs, an enterprise application security company that IBM acquired in 2009. While there, she orchestrated a rebrand of the company, taking it from an organization that sold to software developers to one that focused on business-line managers and the C-suite. She also led a successful effort to raise the company’s profile among senior business leadership, which resulted in coverage by publications such as BusinessWeek, Forbes and USA Today.

“Businesses are clearly beginning to see the advantages of storage-as-a-service and the benefits of the cloud,” said Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni. “Last year exceeded our expectations, and to continue and further accelerate our growth, it was obvious that we needed to add a strong, visionary marketing professional to the leadership team. Jennifer’s success in speeding the growth of venture backed startups, and her deep experience within the tech industry as a whole, identified her as the kind of leader we wanted to bring on board.”

Sullivan holds a master’s degree in business administration, entrepreneurial and international studies, magna cum laude, from Babson College, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations, cum laude, from Boston University.

About Nasuni
Nasuni was founded in 2009 by storage veterans to deliver a secure gateway to cloud storage that makes the cloud feasible for business users. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni’s solution eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware and the resulting capital expense to manage unstructured file growth. The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners. To download the Nasuni Filer, or for more information, please visit http://www.nasuni.com.

About the Nasuni Filer
The Nasuni Filer, a virtual appliance, delivers primary storage from the cloud that is indistinguishable from local storage. Nasuni offers the benefits of cloud storage to businesses by simplifying file access, security, back-up, and disaster recovery while eliminating the expense of hardware infrastructure expansion. The Filer leverages unlimited storage, while delivering the performance expected of a traditional file server. The Nasuni Filer provides both NFS and CIFS support to serve a broad variety of environments. Nasuni also offers a native data migration service that makes moving large data sets to the cloud easier and more efficient.

Nasuni’s technology has been recognized with multiple industry awards including being named the Gold winner in Storage Magazine’s Storage Management Tools category, Gold winner in Tech Awards Circle’s Midrange Service category and Winner of the 2010 MITX Technology Award for Cloud Computing.

The Nasuni Filer can be downloaded free at www.nasuni.com/free-trial/free-trial-registration/.

Social Media Links
Twitter: www.twitter.com/nasuni
The Nasuni cloud storage blog: http://www.nasuni.com/blog/