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1. 1. Azul Systems - Executive Management Team

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   Published on: 6/18/2008   Last Visited: 6/18/2008

   John Brennan, Vice President of Hardware at Azul Systems
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   John Brennan Vice President of Hardware
   
   John Brennan brings more than 25 years of experience to his role of leading the hardware engineering team at Azul.John has led the development of highly scalable computer systems (up to 1024 CPUs) in addition to having led the development of state of the art microprocessors.
   
   Prior to joining Azul, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Professional and Embedded Solutions at NVIDIA, leading a team which developed standalone Graphics solutions for use in professional workstations.
   
   Prior to NVIDA, John was the Vice President of Engineering for Chelsio communications where he led both the HW and SW development of a 10Gbit ethernet protocol offload product.
   
   Prior to Chelsio, John spent 4 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems where he was Vice President of Hardware Engineering for the midrange and highend server products.At its peak, this product line generated ~$4Billion of annual revenue which represented about 25% of the revenue for Sun Microsystems.While at Sun, John led the development of the Sun Fire 3800, 4800, 6800, E15k, E25k and their follow-on products.
   
   Prior Sun, John spent 9+ years at Silicon Graphics where he led the development of the Origin 3000 server product line (a distributed shared memory machine which scaled up to 1024 CPUs). the development of the R10000 microprocessor, and the development of the R8000 microprocessor.
   
   John has been in the computer industry since 1981; during this time he as always been involved in the development of either advanced CPUs or multiprocessor systems.He has worked Magnuson Computer Systems, Synapse Computer, Cydrome, and Tandem Computers.
   
   John graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a BS degree in Electrical Enigineering and Computer Science.He also holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

2. 2. Austin Ventures : News

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   Published on: 5/24/2007   Last Visited: 12/18/2007

   MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 24, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Azul Systems, the award-winning leader of enterprise server appliances for business-critical Java applications, today announced the appointments of Evan Ellis as senior vice president, worldwide field operations, and John Brennan as vice president of hardware.
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   With deep experience in advanced CPUs and multiprocessor systems, Brennan will lead Azul's hardware engineering team as it focuses on the next generations of Azul's network attached processing appliances.
   
   "I am tremendously proud of the addition of Evan and John to the Azul executive team," said Stephen DeWitt, president and CEO of Azul Systems.
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   Prior to joining Azul, John Brennan was the vice president of engineering for professional and embedded solutions at NVIDIA, leading the team that developed standalone graphics solutions for use in professional workstations. Prior to NVIDIA, Brennan was the vice president of engineering for Chelsio Communications where he led both the hardware and software development teams to develop a 10 gigabit Ethernet protocol offload product. Prior to Chelsio, Brennan was vice president of hardware engineering for Sun Microsystems where his midrange and high-end server product lines generated approximately $4 billion of annual revenue, representing around 25 percent of Sun's revenue. Prior to Sun, Brennan spent more than 9 years at Silicon Graphics where he led the development of the Origin 3000 server product line -- a distributed shared memory machine that scaled to 1024 CPUs -- along with the R10000 and R8000 microprocessors. Brennan holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
   
   "Azul has developed the key technology that gives Java platforms the compute power and memory they need to run the business world's most transaction-intensive applications," said Brennan.

3. 3. Azul Systems Names Evan Ellis Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, and John Brennan Vice President of Hardware

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   Published on: 5/25/2007   Last Visited: 6/18/2008

   Mountain View, Calif. , May 25, 2007, Azul Systems, the award-winning leader of enterprise server appliances for business-critical Java applications, today announced the appointments of Evan Ellis as senior vice president, worldwide field operations, and John Brennan as vice president of hardware.
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   With deep experience in advanced CPUs and multiprocessor systems, Brennan will lead Azul's hardware engineering team as it focuses on the next generations of Azul's network attached processing appliances.
   
   "I am tremendously proud of the addition of Evan and John to the Azul executive team," said Stephen DeWitt, president and CEO of Azul Systems.
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   Prior to joining Azul, John Brennan was the vice president of engineering for professional and embedded solutions at NVIDIA, leading the team that developed standalone graphics solutions for use in professional workstations.Prior to NVIDIA, Brennan was the vice president of engineering for Chelsio Communications where he led both the hardware and software development teams to develop a 10 gigabit Ethernet protocol offload product.Prior to Chelsio, Brennan was vice president of hardware engineering for Sun Microsystems where his midrange and high-end server product lines generated approximately $4 billion of annual revenue, representing around 25 percent of Sun's revenue.Prior to Sun, Brennan spent more than 9 years at Silicon Graphics where he led the development of the Origin 3000 server product line , a distributed shared memory machine that scaled to 1024 CPUs , along with the R10000 and R8000 microprocessors.Brennan holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
   
   "Azul has developed the key technology that gives Java platforms the compute power and memory they need to run the business world's most transaction-intensive applications," said Brennan.