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Swanson named president of Rorke Data
3/21/08
by Erik Borg, Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal
He's not a household name, but Joe Swanson has a lot to do with the television coming into people's homes.
As the new president of Rorke Data Inc., he is the head of a company that provides the digital-storage technology that TV stations need, from local outlets to the big American networks and even global channels like MTV Brazil and Bangkok TV.
Now, with Swanson at the helm, the Eden Prairie-based subsidiary of Bell Microproducts Inc. is poised to turn its business into a nine-figure sales machine.
Bell Micro signs up Micron
3/19/08
by Paul Weinberg, eChannelLine
The decision by storage distributor Bell Microproducts to carry the Micron Technology solid state drive product line is another signal that SSDs are no longer a niche product.
Everyone is seriously examining the technology, stated Mark Peters, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. He pointed for instance to IBM and Apple in terms of day-to-day use of storage (servers, laptops without regular spinning disk) "turbo" applications (such as Gear 6 and its NAS cache) and EMC's Symmetric.
"And now, Bell Micro adds its significant distribution weight to the industry push/acknowledgment that this is a big deal."
At the same time, no one is suggesting that hard disk drives are going away anytime soon, Peters continued. "The economics are still massively in favor of the round, brown disks."
Under the terms of the distribution agreement Bell Microproducts is carrying Micron's line of DRAM modules, Managed NAND and the RealSSD sold state drive offerings.
Bell Micro Appoints Rorke Data Prez
3/12/08
by Byte and Switch
Bell Microproducts Inc. (NasdaqGM:BELM - News), one of the world's largest value-added distributors of storage and computing technology, today announced the promotion of Joe Swanson to the position of president of Rorke Data, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts).
Swanson originally joined Rorke Data in 1986 as vice president of sales, a position he held until 2003, at which time he was promoted to vice president and general manager. As president of Rorke Data, Swanson is responsible for company operations worldwide, as well as heading up sales of its flagship product, the Galaxy line of RAID, NAS and storage server products. Rorke Data provides value-added, state-of-the-art hardware and software digital storage and management solutions.
Bell Microproducts Promotes Joe Swanson to President of Rorke Data
3/12/08
by StorageNewsletter.com
Swanson brings over 25 years of storage industry experience to his new role at Rorke Data. Prior to joining Rorke Data, Swanson worked in national sales at Control Data Corporation for six years. Swanson is a graduate of The University of St. Thomas, where he received a BA degree in Business Administration.
Micron signs distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts
3/11/08
by Eddie Kovsky, Idaho Business Review
Bell Microproducts Inc., a distributor of storage and computing technology, announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Micron Technology to distribute Micron's line of DRAM modules, embedded NAND flash memory (used in cell phones) and the company’s new RealSSD solid state drives.
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