Gridstore Names Former Drobo CEO and BlueArc Founder Geoff Barrall as Executive Chairman of the Board

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Jan 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Gridstore(TM), the leader in grid-based, scale-out NAS, today announced
that Geoff Barrall has been named the company's executive chairman of its
board of directors. The storage-industry veteran and visionary brings
decades of insight and leadership in creating disruptive storage
solutions and building highly successful new markets opportunities for
the SME to the enterprise. Barrall will play an integral role as
Gridstore continues to set the standard for a new generation of scale-out
NAS.

The appointment of Barrall is a strong validation of Gridstore's
innovation and ability to execute and deliver the industry's next
generation of scale-out NAS. Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization
with a grid processing platform designed from day one to deliver a single
pool of storage that simplifies management and increases performance,
scalability and reliability verses traditional clustered scale-out NAS at
a fraction of the total cost. Gridstore provides plug and play capacity
and I/O scaling so customers can start small and incrementally grow to
any size they require. This eliminates the need to overprovision costly
storage resources and removes the complexity and waste associated with
clustered NAS solutions.

"I've been looking at scale-out storage solutions for many years and
every product has been fraught with low performance and high cost caused
by the clustering model that has been universally used," said Geoff
Barrall. "When I was introduced to Gridstore my first thought was, 'Here
is a company that finally has it right'. Its simple, elegant design
allows for a much higher level of performance and scale than
cluster-based solutions, while requiring a fraction of their cost to
maintain. I'm excited to join Gridstore's team as the company actually
delivers the promised benefits of scale-out storage to the market."

Formerly the chief technology officer and vice president of engineering
for Overland Storage, Barrall brings years of experience and contacts in
the areas of product strategy, marketing strategy and technology
consulting to his new executive chairman role at Gridstore. During his
time at Overland the company grew its market share and continued to lead
the market with technology innovations for more scalable and reliable
storage solutions.

Prior to his position with Overland Storage, Barrall was the founder and
CEO at Drobo (formerly Data Robotics), an innovate storage platform
designed for the SOHO market where he rapidly grew sales from zero to a
$40 million annual run rate within just ten quarters of initial product
launch. Prior to Data Robotics, he was founder and CTO of BlueArc, an
enterprise storage company acquired by Hitachi Data Systems.

"Gridstore is at a pivotal growth point and we are delighted to have
Geoff on board as executive chairman," said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore.
"He brings an amazing track record in growing highly successful storage
businesses with solutions that have made a huge impact on the industry.
While Gridstore brings the next generation of scale-out storage to the
market that eliminates the cost, complexity and waste of cluster based
solutions -- adding Geoff's experience, leadership and vision will
accelerate the impact our products will have in changing the storage
market."

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid-based, scale-out Network
Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution
uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to
deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while
increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is
designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and
complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage
without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in
Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit:
http://www.gridstore.com

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