JNI Corporation Names Robinson to Lead System Architecture Group
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 26, 2003–JNI(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: JNIC), a leader in developing enterprise connectivity products, today announced the appointment of Irv Robinson to the position of Director of Engineering for the Systems Architecture Group, reporting to the VP of Engineering, Brad Masters. In his new position, Robinson will be charged with leading the system architecture process to guarantee competitiveness of JNI products.
“JNI is focused on recruiting industry-leading engineering talent and hiring Irv demonstrates that strategy,” said Masters. “Irv has a proven track record of results at several companies developing and delivering high-speed I/O architectures, server chipsets and parallel databases. This makes him uniquely qualified to drive the architecture of JNI’s next generation products and help JNI’s growth in the Fibre Channel HBA and server-to-server clustering I/O markets.”
Robinson joins JNI from Intel Corporation where he was a Director of Engineering for Server Chipset Development. There he led the server chipset I/O development team that delivered server southbridges, InfiniBand HCA and switch chips. Also at Intel, Robinson was chief architect for Intel’s InfiniBand and NGIO initiatives, Technical Working Group co-chair of the InfiniBand Trade Association and Steering Committee chair of the NGIO Forum.
Prior to that Robinson was Director of Engineering for Scalable I/O Development at NCR Corporation. At NCR, Robinson drove the development of parallel processing computing platforms for the Teradata DBMS and was previously Chief Technology Officer for NCR’s Parallel Systems Division.
According to Robinson, “The opportunity to join JNI gives me the chance to produce leading-edge product architectures in I/O interconnects and drive the technology strategy of a performance leader in Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and emerging RDMA products.”
About JNI Corporation
JNI Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of connectivity products for the enterprise data center and the leading provider of Fibre Channel-based host bus adapters (HBAs) for Solaris servers. JNI offers a broad line of Fibre Channel HBAs, InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, storage ASICs and software. The products operate on Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, HP-UX, AIX and Linux systems. JNI customers, distributors and strategic partners include Acal Electronics, Ltd., Arrow Electronics, Bell Microproducts, Brocade, Chaparral, Crossroads, EMC, Eurologic, GE Access, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Info-X, LSI Logic, McDATA, Mellanox, Nishan Systems, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, TidalWire and Veritas. Company headquarters are in San Diego, with offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. www.jni.com.
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