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BOCADA NAMES NANCY HURLEY AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Unified Management Platform Strategy Key to Growth
Bellevue, WA. – May 22, 2008 – Bocada, Inc., the recognized leader in data protection management software, today announced the promotion of Nancy Hurley to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Hurley, who has been with Bocada for 18 months, was initially brought in as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. The company later broadened her role to include managing the sales organization.
“I am excited to be taking on this role as Bocada drives ahead against our recently announced Unified Management Platform strategy,” said Hurley. “The company has a unique opportunity to once again lead the way by creating an intelligent, heterogeneous centralized environment for end-to-end data protection management and analysis.”
“Nancy has spearheaded the new strategic direction for Bocada,” said Greg Gottesman, board member and Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group. “Nancy has that rare combination of being super-strong both strategically and operationally. The board is confident she can execute on what we think will be a fast-growing market segment in data protection.”
Hurley is a seasoned sales and marketing executive, with over 20 years experience in the storage, communications, and networking industries. Prior to joining Bocada, Nancy was Senior Director of Storage Software Marketing for Sun Microsystems. Before Sun, she was a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) where she provided strategic consulting to vendors in the storage software and infrastructure markets. Prior to ESG, she served as the Worldwide Strategic Planning Manager for Tektronix Communications Test Group and was with Hewlett Packard for 10 years in various senior sales and marketing roles.
About Bocada Centralized Manager and Bocada Enterprise
Today, customers are required to manage multiple heterogeneous data protection applications from disparate consoles, adding to operational and administrative complexity. Bocada is addressing this issue by providing a centralized management console to application servers, centrally viewing data protection schedules, and monitoring for policy adherence. Combining this functionality with the industry-leading Bocada Enterprise reporting functionality provides users with full end-to-end management of the data protection environment.
As with the flagship Bocada Enterprise solution, the Bocada Centralized Manager is an agentless technology that allows for fast, simple deployment and updates.
About Bocada
Bocada provides automated insight and visibility into data protection processes, enabling IT organizations to confidently analyze data recoverability, predict risk vulnerability and identify opportunities for cost reduction. Based on patented, agent-less technology, Bocada solutions deploy rapidly and scale to meet the demands of
the largest multi-vendor data protection environments. More than 400 brand-name customers and partners worldwide trust Bocada for their data protection operations, including Microsoft, Sprint, Unilever and Valero Energy. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Bocada is privately held and funded by leading venture investors. For more information visit: www.bocada.com
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