Industry Veteran Peter O'Brien Joins InMage Systems As Vice President Of Business Development

InMage Systems, Inc., recently announced that industry veteran Peter O'Brien has joined the company as vice president of business development. Mr. O'Brien has over 28 years of experience in Silicon Valley, specializing in strategic channel and OEM partnerships for young companies. He will focus on creating new business and revenue opportunities for InMage, including OEM relationships with tier one hardware and software suppliers.

Mr. O'Brien's early career experience includes a 12 year tenure at Sun Microsystems, where he held various sales and management positions. He joined software pioneer VERITAS Software Corp. in 1998, growing OEM sales from $26 million to $226 million in just three years. Mr. O'Brien subsequently served as senior director of sales for Rhapsody Networks, where he positioned the company as a leading provider of networking and intelligent switching platforms, contributing to its acquisition by Brocade Communications Systems in January 2003.

Most recently, Mr. O'Brien served as vice president of OEM sales at Diligent Technology, an enterprise de-duplication pioneer acquired by IBM in April 2008. He was integral in establishing some of Diligent's most successful partnerships, including those with Sun Microsystems and Overland Storage. Mr. O'Brien also held senior management positions with Mendocino Software and Sistina Software, a Linux clustering company eventually purchased by Red Hat Software.

"We are thrilled to have an executive of Peter's caliber join InMage's business development team," said John Ferraro, president and CEO, InMage Systems. "Peter has been instrumental to the success of many pioneering young companies, with an outstanding record for taking sales and growth to the next level. We are confident he will play a significant role at InMage, building opportunities for our flagship DR-Scout business continuity and disaster recovery solution."

About InMage Systems, Inc.
InMage Systems provides continuous data protection and disaster recovery solutions for small to large enterprises. The company's flagship software suite, DR-Scout, enables companies to protect, maintain and access their critical data and applications during any event that threatens information loss. DR-Scout ensures the integrity of backup and replication processes that are essential to business operations, both on a daily basis and during unforeseen disasters. Key applications include disaster recovery, operational recovery and application/data availability. DR-Scout is also noted as the pioneer of true event-based recovery that facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements. InMage was co-founded in 2001 by technology leaders, including CTO and SVP of Engineering Rajeev Atluri, previously of Gadzoox and storage visionary and Brocade co-founder Kumar Malavalli. InMage is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.inmage.net.

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