Exabyte hires to strengthen OEM push
Exabyte hires to strengthen OEM push
Exabyte has made it clear in recent months that it sees original equipment manufacturing partnerships as a major aspect to its strategy. Pushing the strategy will be Bill Hake, the new Vice President of OEM sales that Exabyte has poached from Iomega.
Mr Hake will be responsible expanding original equipment manufacturing (OEM) relationships for Exabyte, a role he was highly successful at for Iomega. At Iomega he created strategic relationships with Apple, Compaq, Dell, Gateway and IBM.
In his career of 25 years he has also worked for other senior storage players including Seagate and Maxtor.
"Building a strong relationship with the OEM community is a critical part of the Exabyte's corporate strategy, and Bill is the ideal person to build on the momentum we generated in 2002," said Tom Ward, president and CEO of Exabyte.
Exabyte has been building its OEM relationship up of late and in October announced a new relationship with IBM to supply its VXA-2 tape drives as a storage solution for the eServer pSeries.
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