FileTek Announces the Appointment of Mark Seamans as Executive Vice President and CTO
Experienced software executive will focus on customer-centric product evolution
Rockville, Maryland – February 16, 2010 - FileTek, Inc., a leading global provider of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, today announced that Mark Seamans has joined the company in the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Mr. Seamans brings over 20 years of experience in the design, development, and delivery of enterprise software solutions to the FileTek leadership team. The executive appointment announced today is effective immediately.
As Executive Vice President and CTO, Mr. Seamans will be focused on closely linking FileTek technology and R&D investments to the most pressing and highly-valued customer requirements. He will also serve as FileTek's key communicator regarding the company's technology vision and direction.
Mr. Seamans joins FileTek after contributing to the growth and success of both private and public enterprise software companies. He was CTO and a member of the board of directors at Cardiff, a leader in document processing and business process management from 1995 through 2003 when the company was acquired by Verity – a dominant player in the area of enterprise search and automated information processing. At Verity, Mr. Seamans served as Senior Vice President of R&D, where he led the company's team of over 200 engineers located in three development sites in California and Canada. In December of 2005, following the acquisition of Verity by Autonomy, a worldwide leader in pan-enterprise search and meaning-based computing technology, Mr. Seamans was appointed as the divisional CEO for the Cardiff business unit, where he had overall responsibility for the group's sales, technology and operational execution. Prior to his tenure at Cardiff, Mr. Seamans spent six years working for NCR/Teradata, where he managed several engineering development teams and worked on solution design and architecture.
Mr. Seamans earned an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Colorado's National Technological University.
"We are extremely pleased to have Mr. Seamans as a member of the FileTek team. Mark is a technology visionary who has consistently demonstrated an ability to guide the development of product capabilities that deliver maximum benefit to customers. We look forward to leveraging his broad experience in enterprise solution development to rapidly evolve our solution platform and deliver targeted solutions in a number of vertical markets," stated Bill Loomis, CEO at FileTek.
Mr. Seamans added, "I am excited about the opportunity to work with FileTek's customers and the company's outstanding research and development organization. FileTek has a long track record of delivering innovative storage management and information processing solutions, and there are tremendous opportunities ahead for FileTek to build on its strong technology foundation. You can expect FileTek to deliver products that will transform the way its customers work with information."
About FileTek
FileTek, Inc. is a premier provider of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, enabling organizations, worldwide and across multiple industry segments, to efficiently manage, rapidly access, and effectively govern their ever-growing volume of enterprise data. Since 1984, FileTek has provided comprehensive, award-winning solutions to companies, prestigious educational institutions, and scientific and government agencies worldwide. From our patented and innovative StorHouse high-volume data management solutions to our Trusted Edge information classification and asset management software, FileTek maintains a steady focus: enhancing and automating information lifecycle management and data preservation processes for all categories and volumes of data. The company's website may be accessed at www.FileTek.com.
FileTek is headquartered at 9400 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. Telephone: 301-251-0600. Fax: 301-251-1990. The FileTek international headquarters, FileTek Ltd, is located at One Northumberland Ave., London WC2N 5BW. Telephone: +44 (0) 207 872 5583. Fax: +44 (0) 207 753 2829. The company also has offices across North America.
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Diamond Lauffin, co-founder of Nexsan Technologies North America and a leading authority in the field of storage and storage systems will discuss the challenges, requirements and available technologies that are being implemented to successfully manage, archive, backup, and access this critical biomedical research information. The presentation will take place at "The Petabyte Challenge" - a conference focused on addressing the challenges associated with managing the explosion of research-related data. The conference is being presented by the Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI) and will be held on February 18th and 19th at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
Mr. Lauffin was directly involved in providing multi-petabyte solutions to organizations such as Fermi Labs and JPL/CalTech as well as many other University, Scientific and Commercial installations. Mr. Lauffin will be sharing his personal experience with the recent evaluation and roll-out of a multi-petabyte 'active archive' solution at a major national laboratory. The deployed solution serves as the core storage component for the capture and sharing of next-generation genomic sequencing information produced at numerous bioinformatic research facilities and centers throughout the United States. Furthermore, he will discuss their selection process and subsequent deployment process for the FileTek StorHouse® storage virtualization and data management system as an active archive, backup and redundant on-line, off-site secondary site solution for their 12-petabytes of research data.
Mr. Lauffin will illustrate how a cost livable and cost justifiable approach was deployed to support a combined total of 24-petabytes of synchronized, on-site, off-site, on-line managed data. While the example discussed in this session may appear unique, these same storage challenges and requirements confront industries and organizations of all sizes. Please join Mr. Lauffin for this informational and entertaining session.
