Isilon Appoints Eric Brodersen as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

SEATTLE, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that Eric Brodersen has been appointed as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, reporting directly to Isilon CEO Sujal Patel. Brodersen will focus on creating strategic partner relationships and further integrating Isilon's marketing and sales operations to deliver complete scale-out storage and data management solutions for the enterprise. Brodersen was formerly Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Quantum, where he developed and implemented a global, partner-driven sales strategy that generated more than $680 million in fiscal year 2010. Prior to his role in sales leadership, Brodersen served as Quantum's Vice President of Marketing, overseeing the company's marketing strategy during its acquisition and integration of ADIC.

"Eric understands that leveraged relationships with high-value partners and deeply integrated marketing and sales strategies are critical to scaling businesses quickly and efficiently," said Sujal Patel. "His deep experience in creating and implementing a range of partner-driven business models will enable us to deliver ever-more robust and comprehensive scale-out storage solutions to customers."

"Over the last ten years, I've watched enterprise storage buyers turn away from traditional architectures in favor of next-generation solutions that reduce costs and drive consistent productivity improvements," said Eric Brodersen. "Isilon is at the forefront of this shift, as its powerful yet simple scale-out storage solutions help enterprises get more done at less cost. I'm excited to help Isilon continue driving this shift to scale-out storage by developing highly-leveraged strategic partnerships and innovative solution offerings."

Brodersen previously served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Quantum from April 2009 to June 2010, where he led global, partner-driven operations totaling $681 million in fiscal year 2010.  Prior to leading Quantum's worldwide sales strategy, Brodersen served as Senior Vice President for Quantum's EMEA and APAC sales operations, from 2007-2009. Prior to his role in sales leadership, Brodersen served as Vice President of Marketing for Quantum, where he led the company's marketing strategy during its acquisition and integration of ADIC in 2006. Prior to the acquisition, Brodersen held numerous sales and marketing leadership positions at ADIC. Brodersen holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

About Isilon

As a global leader in scale-out storage, Isilon delivers powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there's a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

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