Sonasoft Expands Executive Management Team with New Vice President of Sales

San Jose, California – Sonasoft Inc., an emerging leading provider of fully integrated and automated solutions for archiving, data backup and recovery solutions for the SMB market, today announced that Bruce Serpa has been named Vice President of Sales. In this role, Mr. Serpa will oversee all sales activities and sales strategies as Sonasoft positions itself to target key markets around the globe.

 

“Sonasoft’s commitment to e-mail archiving back-up and replication solutions for the Microsoft domain coupled with its track record of customer satisfaction over the past several years is a testament to the vision created by its management team,” Commented Serpa. “I welcome the opportunity to be part of the Sonasoft family as we look to develop new channel and partner strategies to address new markets.”

 

Previously, Mr. Serpa served as Director of North American Sales and Strategic Alliances for i365 a Seagate Technology company. In this role, Mr. Serpa was responsible for defining and driving sales methodologies in the OEM, enterprise and channel partner communities. During his tenure at Seagate, he established strategic relationships with leading organization such as IBM, Microsoft, Siemens and others. During his tenure, Mr. Serpa held positions Calluna Technology, Siemens, and Tandberg Data.

 

“Bruce comes along with an enviable track record of sales and channel development leadership success in both start-up and Fortune 1000 organizations,” Said Andy Khanna, President and CEO, Sonasoft Inc., “Under his leadership and guidance, we will continue our expansion plans into new territories and position Sonasoft as leaders in providing automated e-mail archiving, backup and recovery solutions for the SMB market.”

 

Mr. Serpa will report to the President and CEO, Any Khanna.

 

About Sonasoft®

 

Sonasoft, Inc. revolutionized the Disk to Disk backup and recovery process for MS Exchange MS SQL & Windows File Systems with its groundbreaking SonaSafe™ Point-Click Recovery™ solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.  For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com

Sonasoft Signs Partnership Agreement with Integra Micro Systems

Sonasoft Corp., provider of SonaSafe integrated backup, high availability and disaster recovery software, signed a partnership agreement with Integra Micro Systems to ramp up its product development efforts. Integra Micro, based out of Bangalore, India has tremendous experience in software development and services.

Sonasoft provides a high-availability and disaster recovery solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. Sonasoft’s software is the focused solution for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows servers incorporating the latest design for disk-to-disk backup; it is the most efficient and effective integrated solution available in Backup and Replication.  The SonaSafe Replication / Hot-Standby feature is one of the most cost effective solutions in the market; clients are able to realize tightly integrated Backup/Recovery and Replication capabilities in a single attractively-priced product.
 
“Integra Micro is a well established company with more than twenty five years of experience in software development and providing services. We were looking for a partner who would help us to ramp up our product development efforts especially in the area of Email Archiving and e-Discovery. Integra Micro is a company that brings immense experience and knowledge in software development and services. We are really excited about this partnership” noted Andy Khanna, President & CEO at Sonasoft.

“Sonasoft brings tremendous knowledge in backup/recovery, high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers. We’re confident that this partnership will be mutually beneficial to both the companies and to our customers. The partnership will combine the skills of the two companies to provide a competitive Mail Archival and related solutions to customers all over the world.”said Mahesh Kumar Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, Integra Group.

Integra Micro Systems (P) Ltd
Integra Micro Systems is a group of companies with over two decades of experience in the development of computer software technology and applications. With a proven track record of developing, marketing, and supporting its own products, Integra today specializes in offering software development services in diverse areas, and products to customers world-wide.

Integra offers world-class cutting-edge software products and services in networking, telecom, embedded systems, and the wireless Internet. Device drivers and interfaces, open source software, utility software, and enterprise software are a few more areas in which Integra offers its services. Integra also distributes computer peripherals of reputed manufacturers and packaged software, offers additional services in document conversion and document imaging. For more information, please visit www.integramicro.com

About Sonasoft
Sonasoft Corp. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe® Point-Click Recovery® solutions. SonaSafe is the only product that provides an integrated backup/recovery and replication solution for Exchange and SQL servers. Designed to simplify and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes. <br>
For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com<br><br>
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Chiral Photonics Announces Stan Lumish Has Joined its Board of Directors

Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI), a photonics company commercializing next generation optical components, lasers, and displays based on its proprietary in-fiber and thin-film technologies as well as glass microforming capabilities, today announced that Dr. Stan Lumish joined its Board of Directors.

Dr. Lumish, most recently, is the former chief technology officer at JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU).   JDSU is the leading provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for the telecommunications industry.

Dr. Lumish began his career at AT&T Bell Labs, after receiving his PhD in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982. Dr. Lumish held numerous management positions with AT&T Network Systems and Lucent Technologies, where he received the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow award for his work in Dense WDM systems.  Dr. Lumish joined JDS Uniphase in February 2000 as Vice President, Network Product Applications and subsequently also led the R&D efforts of the Transmission Subsystems Group. From July 2002 to June 2003 he was President of the Optical Layer group. He then became the CTO for JDSU where he was responsible for technology strategy across communications, commercial, and consumer markets. Currently, Dr. Lumish continues to serve JDSU as a consultant on intellectual property. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, OSA and a senior member of the IEEE.  He is a member of the External Advisory Board of the Tyndall National Institute and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Lightwave Magazine.

Welcoming Dr. Lumish to the Board, Dan Neugroschl, CPI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are fortunate to be able to add Dr. Lumish to our Board of Directors. Stan provides a wealth of industry insight and technology commercialization experience.  He joins us at an especially opportune time as we build our commercialization efforts to address our products’ many diverse applications. During his distinguished career, Stan has demonstrated his operational, strategic and leadership skills as a senior executive at JDSU, Lucent and AT&T Bell Labs. This experience, including his familiarity with Asia-Pacific and other global markets, makes him an invaluable addition to the Chiral Photonics’ Board.”

 “I am excited about the opportunity to work with the Chiral Photonics leadership team”, said Dr. Lumish about his recent appointment.  He went on to say, “Chiral Photonics offers a compelling blend of dramatic technology innovation, through their patented, microfabricated fiber structures, with clear opportunities for practical applications, and a team that has demonstrated their ability to commercialize new ideas.”

About Chiral Photonics
Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI) is a photonic foundry microforming functionality into optical fibers. Drawing and twisting of optical fibers with sub-micron accuracy, CPI creates flexible, small, robust, fiber components that can filter, sense, couple and lase. CPI’s canvas is optical fiber, the infrastructure of modern photonics, much as the semiconductor wafer is to an integrated circuit foundry.

Varied draw and twist profiles yield varied optical properties. These properties permit a wide array of passive and active devices across a broad spectral range, from ultraviolet to far-infrared and beyond. These building-block devices are produced using scalable, automated processes and serve customers worldwide in communications, defense, test and measurement, instrumentation, computing and diverse sensing applications – biomedical diagnostics to power grid monitoring. 

CPI has introduced flexible, high power polarizers, sensor elements suitable for harsh environment applications and couplers that efficiently couple optical devices and waveguides with highly divergent dimensions and numerical apertures. Included in upcoming offerings, CPI is developing its first active device – a low cost, narrow wavelength, single-frequency, single-polarization laser.

To learn more about Chiral Photonics, visit our Web site at: www.chiralphotonics.com, or contact Gary Weiner at 973-732-0030 x114, gweiner@chiralphotonics.com.

Brilliant Telecommunications Selected as One of California’s Most Promising Companies

Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. (Brilliant), a developer of next-generation network synchronization and timing solutions, has been selected to participate and present at the California Tech Showcase 2008 (CTS 2008, www.CaliforniaTechShowcase.com) in La Baule, France, June 4th through June 6th, 2008.

After extensive review of over 700 companies by the CTS 2008 selection committee, Brilliant Telecommunications was selected as one of California’s most promising companies who exhibit technology innovation and leadership. The CTS 2008 selection committee includes senior executives from leading European companies such as Siemens, T-Mobile, British Telecom, SAP, ST Microelectronics, Burda, Electricite de France, Societe Generale and Bouygues Telecom, among others.

Hosted by EuroStart Capital Partners LLC, a San Francisco-based venture fund, CTS 2008 offers the opportunity for select California companies to launch and accelerate their business in Europe. CTS 2008 sponsors include Dow Jones Venture Source, VLAB MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Europe+ Foundation, Nair & Co., Inc., NYSE Euronext Stock Exchange, the State of California and Avenir Finance.

The Showcase is being held in conjunction with the World Investment Conference.  The World Investment Conference (WIC 2008, www.worldinvestmentconference.com) features hundreds of corporate and political leaders from firms such as Sony, Freescale, EDF, Nokia, BT, Total and Siemens, as well as government officials from around Europe.
This high-profile event will allow Brilliant Telecommunications to present to and meet with 200-300 CEOs, CIOs and CTOs from Europe’s largest businesses. EuroStart will arrange at least five one-on-one meetings between Brilliant Telecommunications and CxOs of European companies. “This is an excellent opportunity for Brilliant Telecommunications to identify potential clients, business partners and investors. CTS 2008’s unique format will catalyze immediate revenue ramp-up in Europe,” said Jean-Bernard Guerrée, Managing Director at EuroStart.

 “Since inception Brilliant Telecommunications has developed standards-based, GNSS solutions that address the end-to-end timing requirements from the access edge to the network core through packet-aware timing technology,” commented Dr. Charles Barry, President and CEO, Brilliant Telecommunications. “This approach delivers essential timing for a wide variety of applications including femtocells, wireless backhaul and mobile basestation hand-off. Brilliant is pleased to accept this endorsement from CTS and welcomes the opportunity to meet with European business leaders as we realize our expansion plans into Europe.”

The global press coverage of the two conferences includes the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, CNBC, EuroNews, BBC, BSkyB, CNN and others.  
Dates: June 4-6, 2008
Where: The Congress Center Atlantia, La Baule, France
Presentation time: Thursday, June 5, 12:30 – 1:00 pm

About The California Tech Showcase
The California Tech Showcase is focused on bringing together the hottest Silicon Valley companies with the titans of the second largest technology market in the world: Europe. The emphasis throughout the conference is to foster deals, distribution, European expansion, and partnership agreements through closely orchestrated one-on-one meetings and creative matchmaking by EuroStart, the conference organizers. There will also be keynotes, round-tables and conference-wide mixers to further enhance the value of the conference to attendees.

About Brilliant Telecommunications
Founded in 2004, Brilliant Telecommunications designs, develops and distributes a family of network timing, management and synchronization solutions, including carrier-class network time protocol (NTP) and precision time protocol (PTP) servers, Primary Reference Sources (PRS), and Building Integrated Timing Supplies (BITS). These highly accurate end-to-end timing network solutions deliver Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring and management capabilities, in addition to providing timing and synchronization to the most time-sensitive applications in legacy and next-generation IP networks.

For more information please visit www.BrilliantTelecom.com .

HP Now Resells Sonasoft Backup/Recovery Software

Sonasoft, Corp. announces that Hewlett Packard will resell its backup and recovery software for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows servers. Customers can directly buy Sonasoft software from HP along with HP-Compaq hardware. HP’s website becomes a one-stop shop for satisfying the backup and recovery needs of small and medium businesses. Sonasoft’s products have gone through extensive testing using HP servers and customers are extremely satisfied with the combined solution.

Sonasoft provides Point-Click RecoveryR solutions for Microsoft SQL, Exchange and Windows servers. The SonaSafeR solution is a centralized management based software which provides automated disk-to-disk backup and recovery via an easy-to use point and click GUI. SonaSafe Backup and Recovery Suite offers total protection through reliable backup and gives customers the ability to be up and running quickly in case of system failure or total disaster. When recovery is required, SonaSafe automatically determines which files need to be restored and quickly performs the recovery from backup data stored to internal hard disks. There’s no need to hunt for backup tapes or determine the correct restore path. Human error and unnecessary downtime are eliminated, and the data is available within minutes, instead of hours.

Loan City, one of the nation’s leading wholesale residential mortgage lenders, successfully deployed SonaSafe products using HP hardware. Loan City uses DL Series servers and storage from HP to meet its backup and storage needs. “SonaSafe is dependable, easy to use, saves time during disaster recovery, and well worth the investment in the software”, said Kazam Ali, Network Engineering Manager at Loan City.

“The new relationship is a win-win-win proposition for HP, HP’s SMB & Enterprise customers and Sonasoft. It significantly expands Sonasoft’s market reach and enables HP to provide data protection and data recovery solutions for their customers’ mission critical applications including Microsoft Exchange Server. Till now these recovery solutions were both too complex and too expensive for this segment. I expect high adoption rate of our solutions by HP’s customers”, commented Vince Khanna, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Sonasoft. “Our partnership with HP will bridge the gap between customers’ business demands and technology needs. Companies rely on vendors to provide a platform where they have access to expert advice and solutions to meet their long-term strategic technology plans. Customers can directly purchase our products and services directly through HP said Neil Kumar, Vice President of Operations at Sonasoft.

About Sonasoft
Sonasoft, Inc. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafeR Point-Click RecoveryR solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.

For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com

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Sonasoft Corporation, 6489 Camden Avenue, Suite #105, San Jose, California 95120 ph. 408-927-6200  fax 408-927-9400. www.sonasoft.com 

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