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Revivio Co-Founder and CTO, Michael Rowan, Named NEBATA Award Winner
Lexington, MA - October 7, 2004 - RevivioŽ, Inc., the leader in continuous data protection, today announced that its co-founder and chief technology officer, Michael Rowan, has been named a winner of the New England Business and Technology Award. The award, presented to Rowan last night by Suzanne Bates, former WBZ Channel 4 News anchorwoman, represents the individuals who the New England Business and Technology Association (NEBATA) feel are the best and the brightest of the New England business community.
"We feel Michael symbolizes exactly what keeps New England a hotbed of technology leadership and innovation. He has conceived of and founded a number of impressive companies that are technology industry success stories - the most recent example is of course Revivio, which Michael co-founded in 2001 to develop next generation data restoration and protection solutions," said Thomas Hopcroft, president of NEBATA. "It is Michael's unyielding passion, vision and creativity that contributed to make him a winner of this year's award."
"NEBATA plays an integral role in identifying and bringing together New England's business and technology leaders," said Rowan. "I am therefore tremendously honored to have been chosen by such a respected and necessary organization as a winner of their New England Business and Technology Award."
Prior to establishing Revivio, Rowan was a founder and CTO of StorageCom, a software company that developed replication, journaling, and snapshot functionality for the enterprise. Rowan was the principal architect of StorageCom's core technology and took a leadership role in all aspects of product development, customer interaction and overall company growth. He was instrumental in securing two rounds of financing for the company and orchestrated the successful sale of StorageCom's technology to a third party. The product is now being sold and developed by Mendocino Software (previously, Vyant Technologies).
As one of three partners at CLAM Associates (now Availant), Rowan was a key contributor in the company's rapid growth from a startup to an industry leader employing over 140 people and posting revenues of $22M. At CLAM, Rowan was responsible for the overall architecture of all new products and was the technical visionary for product idea generation and proof-of-concept implementation. The company's product set included IBM's HACMP (high availability for open systems), IBM's HAGEO (geographic disk replication), and IBM's Concurrent Logical Volume Manager, among many others. During his tenure at CLAM, the HACMP solution was consistently ranked "best-of-breed" by D.H. Brown, Inc., a respected industry research firm. During that time, the company was also named as one of Inc's 500 fastest growing companies.
Rowan was also employed at MangoSoft, where he served as architect for advanced products and worked on research projects for the next generation product set. Rowan also spent several years as an independent consultant, specializing in high availability, storage, backup, and database engagements with companies such as Mobil Oil Company and EMC. Earlier roles include systems programming at the Purdue Computing Center and the Free Software Foundation.
About NEBATA
The New England Business and Technology Association is a non-profit business association that brings together providers and users of technology in business, education and government to foster knowledge-sharing and business development in a professional environment. Programs hosted by the New England Business and Technology Association explore critical issues and opportunities at the intersection of business and technology. Our focus is on "technology-enabled business," specifically the emerging technologies that are transforming business today, and the impact they will have in the near future. Continuing series include the Leadership Roundtable, New England Business and Technology Awards, Critical Issues Series, and unique programs focusing on the Financial Services, Health & Life Sciences, and Retail & Logistics industries. These initiatives support the overall vitality of the New England economy. For more information, visit www.nebata.org .
About Revivio
Revivio, Inc. is the leader in the new field of Continuous Data Protection (CDP). Revivio's Continuous Protection System is a groundbreaking approach to data protection and recovery that allows companies to restore data instantly, exactly as it existed at any point in time, and to recover business applications in just minutes. By allowing enterprises to restore data instantly to any previous point in time, Revivio's Continuous Protection System allows customers to minimize business risk, reduce costs and improve business continuity. For additional information, please call 781-301-0200, email info@revivio.com or visit the company's website at www.revivio.com .
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