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agámi Systems Announces New Executive Management Appointments

Kumar Sreekanti, agámi's Chairman takes on added role of CTO; Jackie Brown appointed VP of Finance

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 5, 2007 — agámi Systems, Inc., an industry leader in delivering enterprise-class unified storage systems with live replication and breakthrough operational performance and TCO, today announced it is bolstering its senior management team with the appointments of Kumar Sreekanti to the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer and Jackie Brown as Vice President of Finance.

“Given Kumar’s deep and existing ties to the organization, his understanding of the marketplace and his critical involvement in the developments of our initial storage offering, we are delighted to have him take the helm as our technology leader,” said David Stiles, CEO of agámi Systems, Inc. “We are equally pleased to have Jackie Brown joining our organization as VP of Finance. Her knowledge and experience will be important to the company especially as we expand our staff, operational and financial investments.”

As CTO, Sreekanti is responsible for setting the technology and product roadmap directions for the company, in addition to retaining his role as agámi Systems’ Chairman of the Board of Directors. As the former President and CEO of agámi from May 2003 to May 2007, Sreekanti played an instrumental role in developing and bringing the agámi Information Server (AIS) product family to market in 2005. With his extensive knowledge of the computing, networking and storage industries, Sreekanti is driving the vision and development of the company’s next-generation of unified storage products which include simultaneous support for NAS and IP SAN data formats to allow file data and block-level applications to be consolidated and managed on a single platform. Prior to joining agámi Systems, Sreekanti was the CEO of Omniva Policy Systems, a startup company funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and was the Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Akamai Technologies. He also has previously held senior engineering management positions with Adaptec, Micropolis and Connor Peripherals.

agámi Systems also announced that Jackie Brown has joined the company as Vice President of Finance where she will be responsible for all financial investment and human resource functions. Brown brings a broad financial background through her experience at startups and publicly traded companies as well as venture capital firms. Brown spent the last 2 years as vice president of finance for Montalvo Systems, a fabless semiconductor startup founded to develop low-power chips for next-generation mobile computing. At Montalvo, she managed various financial and operational responsibilities, providing a valuable role in the company’s rapid domestic and international growth, such as securing funding, setting up recruiting efforts, and establishing operations overseas. Prior to Montalvo Systems, Brown held a management position with Skymoon Ventures where she operated as CFO for a number of portfolio companies. Early in her career, Brown served as Controller for Siara Systems and helped lead the company through its acquisition by Redback Networks. Brown holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Santa Clara and BS from State University of New York at Geneseo.

About agámi Systems, Inc.

agámi Systems is the leading provider of unifed network storage systems with integrated live file system replication. The agámi Information Server delivers breakthrough performance and unprecedented cost savings for geographically distributed business-critical applications. By unlocking the bottlenecks of NAS and IP SAN performance, agámi Information Servers enable fast, efficient storage for large-scale file and database applications. agámi Systems solutions integrate seamlessly into customers’ existing infrastructure and applications and are compatible with the leading enterpr

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