Unitrends Expands Executive Team; Names Russell Holt Vice President Business Development

Computing Veteran Joins Disk-Based Data Protection Leader to Fuel Continued
Growth
COLUMBIA, S.C.--(Business Wire)--
Unitrends (www.unitrends.com), the leader in affordable, heterogeneous
disk-based data protection appliances, today announced that it has named Russell
(Russ) Holt to its executive team as vice president, business development. Holt
joins the growing data protection leader with more than two decades of computing
industry expertise, including positions with NCR Corporation and Dell Inc.

"Russ is a highly versed and experienced executive with a strong track record in
managing the unique challenges of rapidly growing organizations like ours." said
Mark Campbell, chief operating officer, Unitrends. "We are delighted to welcome
Russ to the Unitrends executive team and look forward to the insight and vision
he brings through the next phase of our growth transformation."

Holt joins Unitrends with more than 23 years of computing industry experience,
including management and executive experience in the areas of product
engineering, program management, product marketing/management, business and
operational management. Holt spent more than eight years with Dell in a number
of leadership roles, most notably as the general manager of the Enterprise
Product Group growing servers to the No. 2 position worldwide and reaching over
$1B in revenue for storage systems. Prior to his departure, Holt was vice
president of Dell`s software development and tools organization where he had
worldwide responsibility for the development of embedded platform software and
systems management and services tools.

Prior to Dell, Holt spent more than 14 years with NCR Corp. where he held a
variety of positions in product management and engineering. Prior to leaving
NCR, he was vice president and general manager of its server systems division.
Most recently, Holt worked in the non-profit sector providing executive and
leadership counsel in the areas of strategic planning, business management and
business development. Holt holds a bachelor's degree in information and computer
science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and he currently serves as
vice-chairman of the university`s College of Computing Advisory Board.

"Unitrends is a unique, customer-oriented organization with a strong dedication
toward delivering the low cost data protection alternatives small and mid-sized
companies need for their heterogeneous computing environments," said Holt. "I`m
pleased to join such a passionate, experienced executive team in a position
where I can have a direct impact on Unitrends` future growth."

About Unitrends

Small and medium businesses have the same critical reliance on the integrity of
their data as enterprises, but often can`t afford the operational expenditure of
a dedicated staff or the capital expenditure of replacing their IT
infrastructure. Unitrends provides enterprise-level data protection, at the
lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, through a family of scalable
disk-based data protection appliances that integrate and protect existing
heterogeneous computer and storage systems through a single, intuitive,
graphical user interface. Information about Unitrends can be found at
http://www.unitrends.com.

E.S. Jones PR for Unitrends
Erin Jones, 704-664-2170; ejones@esjonespr.com

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