Terascala, Inc., a provider of high throughput, high capacity storage appliances, today announced that Bill Blake has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Blake is currently the CEO of Interactive Supercomputing, Inc., the developer of the Star-P interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for simple, user-friendly parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures: SMP servers, multi-core servers, and clusters. Previously, Blake was senior vice president of product development of Netezza, a high-performance data warehouse appliance company. Prior to that, Blake was vice president of high performance technical computing at Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer where he led development and marketing efforts for the industry leading HPTC effort using the Alpha processor. Additionally, Blake is on the board of directors at Cray Inc., the pioneers of supercomputers, TotalView Technologies, a provider of analytical software for developing complex, computationally intensive parallel programs, and Interactive Supercomputing. Blake was a previous board member at Cluster File Systems Inc, developers of the Lustre file system (acquired by SUN). For the past four years he as served on the external research panel for Computation at Sandia National Laboratories. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. “Bill’s more than 20 years of experience and perspective in the world of performance driven computing will be a key asset for Terascala,” said Larry Genovesi, CEO of Terascala. “His understanding of the user challenges and the dynamics of the industry will help Terascala significantly as our growth accelerates.” Terascala builds high throughput, scalable storage appliances leveraging parallel file systems for those people who analyze large quantities of data to make faster, more accurate decisions. Its solution delivers twice the performance at half the cost of competitive solutions with no application changes, offering existing users a better alternative while allowing new users to affordably run their applications. “As processing technologies and disk capacities have exploded over the past decade, storage solution throughput, especially at the parallel file system level, has not kept pace,” said Blake. “Terascala is attacking the right problem at the right time in the right manner with an easy to use, cost effective appliance approach that shatters the performance limitations of alternative storage solutions.”