SCIENCE

ViON Corporation, a specialist in designing, delivering and maintaining storage and server solutions to high-performance enterprise wide data centers, announced today that it has launched a new practice focused on application acceleration.  To head this new effort, Tom Frana, President and CEO of ViON, has enlisted Woody Hutsell, a noted expert in enterprise application acceleration and solid state storage.  

“After 10 years building the solid state disk division at a leading SSD manufacturer, I decided I wanted to be closer to the customer,” said Woody Hutsell, Director of ViON's Application Acceleration Practice.  “ViON was the logical partner for my new career as they have sold, implemented and continue to maintain the world's largest and most important storage network attached solid state disk installations.  Furthermore, ViON's partnership with Hitachi Data Systems and other industry leading players allows this application acceleration practice to deliver best-in-class solutions to the enterprises' largest problems.”

George Crump, Lead Analyst Storage Switzerland said, “Woody is known in the industry for helping to build the solid state storage business for industry pioneer Texas Memory Systems.  Woody's understanding of application acceleration combined with his expertise in the technology makes him a logical fit to lead ViON's efforts in this area.”