Experienced Storage Industry Sales Vice President joins Diablo Technologies

OTTAWA, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Diablo Technologies is pleased to announce that Tom Woodard has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Tom will be responsible for developing and coordinating Diablo's sales strategy across market segments, customers and geographies.

"Tom's leadership and his expertise in addressing the needs of the OEMs will be invaluable to Diablo Technologies as we enter our next phase of growth. Tom will have an immediate impact on our engagement and relationship with key lead customers," said Riccardo Badalone, Diablo Technologies CEO.

Woodard brings over 30 years of computer and storage technology sales experience to Diablo Technologies. His previous experience includes developing the Enterprise sales and product strategies for SSD provider Anobit Technologies (recently acquired by Apple). He was also Sales Director for PMC-Sierra and was Vice President of sales at both Dot Hill Systems and Adaptec.

"I am honored to join Diablo Technologies and look forward to playing an integral role in the company's growth," said Tom Woodard. "Diablo Technologies has the potential to transform the server industry with extremely innovative storage technology that will increase performance and improve the cost structure of blades and dense servers. This is a great opportunity for me to drive the adoption of new and exciting storage products."

About Diablo

Diablo Technologies is a leading provider of high-performance memory bridging solutions. The company's innovative chip solutions alleviate processor bottlenecks by enabling accelerated access to larger pools of memory and I/O cache. The result is full utilization of the systems processing power and significant increases in application performance.

SOURCE Diablo Technologies