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RackSaver announced the appointment of Dane Smith, formerly a key leader of Sun Microsystems’ sales organization, as Vice President of Global Sales. Smith will be responsible for driving worldwide sales of RackSaver’s full line of platform-independent computing solutions. Smith previously spent more than 12 years with Sun Microsystems. Most recently, he served as U.S. Pacific Coast Area Vice President, where he pioneered Sun's migration into commercial Fortune 500 accounts and was responsible for sales, field engineering, channels and support associated with all of Sun's products, services, and software in that geography. He generated revenues in excess of $750 million with major customers including eBay, Toyota, Yahoo, Philips, Wells Fargo, Sony, and Amgen. In his new role at RackSaver, Smith will apply the strategic sales experience developed at Sun Microsystems to the new wave of high performance enterprise computing empowered by today’s standards-based technologies. “RackSaver intends to continue driving Linux, Microsoft, Intel and AMD-based computing solutions into the 21st century enterprise, and bringing on Dane Smith is essential to achieving that business objective,” said David Driggers, CEO, RackSaver. “As an industry veteran with a successful track record of building strong field sales and service organizations with demonstrated leadership and customer commitment, Dane will be instrumental in assisting RackSaver to further its position as a top-tier information technology provider.” “Having worked with Dane Smith, I can say that RackSaver is lucky to have brought in such a professional and skillful sales leader,” said Ken Harris, former Chief Information Officer of the Gap Inc. “Dane helped guide the Gap’s Sun-based technology strategy and I look forward to working with him as he drives RackSaver’s new wave of standards based computing moving forward.”