Joe Austin is Vice President, Client Relations, at Ventana Public Relations. He joined Ventana PR in 2006 with more than 14 years experience in high-tech strategic communications. His media relations experience spans both broadcast and print, and he maintains longstanding relationships with editors and reporters at business, IT, channel, and vertical publications. Austin's relationship with the media includes marquee outlets including CNN, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Bloomberg, and the Associated Press for clients ranging from startups to billion-dollar enterprises. Experience includes working with Maxell, McDATA (Acquired by Brocade), Center for Internet Security, Securent (Acquired by Cisco), Intrepidus Group/PhishMe, FireEye, Mimosa Systems, Xiotech, MOLI.com, EMC/Rainfinity, Spinnaker Networks (Acquired by NetApp), ONStor, Nexsan, Asigra, Avamar (Acquired by EMC), BakBone Software, Dot Hill, SANRAD, Open-E and others.
With more than a decade of strategic planning, media tours, press conferences, and media/analyst relations for companies in the data storage, security, server virtualization, IT outsourcing and networking arenas, Austin's domain expertise assists in positioning clients for leadership.
Austin was recently recognized as a “Top Tech Communicator” for the second year in a row by PRSourceCode. The editorial community – represented by more than 300 participating IT journalists – rated each winner based on best overall performance and recognized those who added the most value to their editorial processes in terms of responsiveness, reliability, and overall understanding of editorial needs.
Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced a new downloadable paper titled "6 Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives." The free educational resource provides guidance on selecting the most appropriate hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk drive (S...Dec. 22, 2011 11:48 AM EST Reads: 206
New solutions such as the Ventana New Media Engine (NME) are emerging that enable companies to effectively leverage these channels, while reducing the time and resources required to support a new media program. The NME delivers a turnkey solution for publishing content across the Web, ...
Nexsan today published a new paper from virtualization and storage industry analyst, George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland. Titled, “Architecting a Scale-Out Design for Scale-Up Storage,” the commissioned paper discusses how scale-up storage has some distinct advantages o...
Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud BackupTM, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, will present at the DatacenterDynamics (DCD) 2011 Toronto conference on the topic of cloud-based virtual disaster recovery (VDR). Asigra's executive vice president, Eran Farajun, will recou...
Artisan Infrastructure, the wholesale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, on Thursday announced open enrollment in the Certified Solution Ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The first solution ecosystem of its kind, designed to facilitate a direct relationship be...
Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced that the Corona-Norco Unified School District has standardized on the Nexsan E60TM for its virtual and disaster recovery storage infrastructure. The large school district uses the Nexsan E60, configured with...
Asigra Inc., a Cloud Backup Recovery, and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, was named one of the Top 20 Cloud Storage Vendors for 2011 by CRN Magazine. Additionally, Asigra was ranked as one of the Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors for 2011. This continues the company's moment...
RELDATA Inc. (www.RELDATA.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, announced today that new research from Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) confirms RELDATA is well positioned to continue its technology leadership and market growth in cloud sto...
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“We are seeing tremendous demand for our unified block and file storage solutions. Unlike the world’s largest technology companies that are effectively bolting together offerings, RELDATA's platform has been architected from the ground up to deliver a best-in-class unified storage prod...
Nexsan, a provider of storage systems for the mid-market, on Tuesday announced the launch of the Nexsan E-Series storage systems, purpose built and priced for the mid-market. The new E-Series advances Nexsan's Flexible Storage Platform by delivering a suite of storage systems with indu...
RELDATA Inc. (www.reldata.com) today announced that Lanie Kruger has been named a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for partners and end users. They consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel par...
RELDATA Inc. (www.RELDATA.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, announced today that multiple education institutions have deployed RELDATA's Unified Storage System to support their rapidly growing IT storage environments. 
RELDATA Inc. (www.RELDATA.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, announced today it is demonstrating the RELDATA Unified Storage System at LegalTech New York, January 31-February 3, 2011 at The Hilton New York Hotel in New York City. RELDATA...
Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data virtualization, today announced that it will hold a series of free webinars in Q1 2011 that explore the applications and benefits of data virtualization for a variety of data-related initiatives, from data integration to master data management. Featurin...
Nexsan, a disk-based storage system provider, has announced that openBench Labs has validated the Nexsan SASBeast storage system for superior performance and IT productivity gains when used in a Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Operating Environment (VOE). The lab report identified that the N...
Queplix Corp., a provider of data virtualization, has introduced three new Application Software Blades (http://bit.ly/e4wpQf) integrating social media sites and their content. Companies can now securely and automatically capture information from FaceBook, LinkedIn and Google Contacts a...
Queplix Application Software Blades™ are smart and application aware – capable of mapping on-premise applications to those deployed in your cloud architecture. Queplix does this easily and quickly because core to the Queplix™ Virtual Data Manager™ is a virtual object metadata directory...
Queplix Corp., a provider of data virtualization, has announced its new Advantage Partner Program to provide the industry's most advanced data virtualization solutions available to value added resellers (VARs), independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs...
This report considers carefully the differing requirements for cloud integration and on-premise integration. Cloud architectures can vary substantially and bring very different application and data integration challenges. Public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds and on-premise syst...
Companies today need to have visibility of their corporate data across multiple systems without having to identify and export it to unwieldy tools. Virtual Data Viewer from Queplix enables users to quickly and easily examine their data when they need to. It simplifies and speeds up the...
This report considers carefully the differing requirements for cloud integration and on-premise integration. Cloud architectures can vary substantially and bring very different application and data integration challenges. Public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds and on-premise syst...
Nexsan®, a leading storage system provider, today announced that openBench Labs, an independent provider of IT performance testing, has released a new lab report on the Nexsan SASBeast® storage array. The hands-on review outlines how the Nexsan system reduces capital expenses (CapEx) a...
Queplix Corp., a leader in data virtualization, will host a free webinar titled Improve Customer Service and Increase Customer Retention on October 20, 2010 at 10 a.m. pacific standard time. Featuring The 451 Group research director Sean Hackett and Michael Zuckerman, chief marketing ...
Queplix CTO and Founder Steven Yaskin discusses new technologies for solving complex data integration challenges. Queplix addresses complex enterprise application integration with enterprise data virtualization - eliminating the constant movement of data for precise data alignment and ...
Enterprise data virtualization solves a perpetual problem: the increasing number of online applications that do not share a consistent and common data set. Uniquely, Queplix presents a persistent metadata server, accessible to all applications to enable a common source of data informat...
Sophia, the innovation leader in contextually aware enterprise search solutions, today announced Sophia Search, a new search solution which uses a Semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be effici...
SANpulse Technologies, Inc. today announced the publication of a free white paper that provides best practices for successfully transitioning data to new storage platforms.
Actifio, the emerging leader in Data Management Virtualization (DMV), today announced general availability of the first three solutions in the Actifio software suite, Actifio DP, for data protection, Actifio DR, for disaster recovery and Actifio BC, for business continuity. Built on Ac...
Nexsan, a leading storage system provider, has announced that its Chief Technology Officer Gary Watson has been chosen as a "2010 Storage Superstar" by CRN Magazine. The CRN Storage Superstar awards recognize the achievements and contributions of visionaries and innovators in the data ...
MCLEANSVILLE, N.C., July 26, 2010 –Litéra®, the leader in next-generation document lifecycle management (DLM), today announced that its document comparison and metadata cleansing solutions have been licensed by SJ Berwin, a highly respected international commercial law firm headquarter...
RELDATA Inc. (www.reldata.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, today announced that Lanie Kruger, Vice President, Channel and Business Development, has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the top Women of the Cha...
Paving the path to the next generation data center, SANpulse Technologies, Inc. today announced impressive revenue growth of 280% in the first and second quarters of 2010 compared against the same time period in 2009. This exponential growth results from continued Fortune 500 enterpris...
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the tape verses disk argument…is that there is still an argument. Most storage mediums transition from old to new without even so much as a fuss as the benefit of new media is clearly understood. However, it seems that tape verses disk continues...
On Friday RELDATA Inc. announced strong revenue growth during the first half of 2010, fueled by the acquisition of new customers, a 20 percent increase in average deal size, and a 50 percent increase in value added reseller (VAR) partnerships signed. In addition to these key performanc...
SANpulse Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has been selected as a 2010 Emerging Technology Vendor by CRN Magazine. SANpulse was one of a select group of software companies to make the list, and was cited by CRN as a vendor that is “delivering high margins for solution providers ...
Nexsan, a storage system provider, has announced that the company’s SASBeast storage system has been named the Best Disk-Based Storage Product of the Year in the 2010 UK Storage Magazine Awards. This honor marks the seventh consecutive year that Nexsan has received an award nomination ...
Asigra Inc., a Cloud Backup and recovery software provider since 1986, has announced that company's Chief Executive Officer, David Farajun, has been named one of the "2010 Storage Superstars" by CRN Magazine. CRN's Storage Superstar Awards honor the visionaries and innovators who have ...
SANpulse Technologies, Inc. today announced that Gerard Lam, company founder, President and Chief Technology Officer, has been selected as a “2010 Storage Superstar” by CRN Magazine. The CRN Storage Superstar awards recognize the achievements and contributions of visionaries and innova...
SANpulse paves the path to next generation data centers, transforming the world’s largest IT infrastructures and creating efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses.SANpulse solutions provide optimization, migration and analytic reporting to automate and si...
