VeriStor CEO Ashby Lincoln Chairman of VMware Partner Advisory Council

VeriStor Systems, Inc., a Southeast region’s enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, announced that VMware has named VeriStor CEO Ashby Lincoln the 2009 Chairman of the VMware Partner Advisory Council. VeriStor was also honored as the winner of the VMware ‘2008 Rising Star’ award. The announcements were made during VMware’s Partner Exchange 2009 partner summit held in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

“We are proud to be recognized as a leading VMware partner and are eager to actively participate in the ongoing success of the VMware Partner Network program,” said Lincoln. “VMware has built a very comprehensive partner program designed to deliver the common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools and world-class training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem. I look forward to contributing to the program’s expansion and its delivery of the programs that enhance customers’ virtualization use and experience.”

VeriStor was recognized as the winning recipient of the VMware ‘2008 Rising Star’ award given to a partner with outstanding virtualization deployment achievements during 2008. The award was presented to VeriStor on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

The VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that will provide a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for VMware’s entire partner ecosystem, from sales partners and solution providers to technology partners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The program will provide new solution competencies and a simplified information portal to make engaging with VMware even easier so that partners can maximize their investments in VMware virtualization and provide customers with the best end-to-end virtualization solutions available.

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Ashby Lincoln is a data-storage veteran with 25 years experience. Prior to leading VeriStor, he served as VP of sales for the Eastern Region of the U.S. for Nexsan. He was also the founding VP of sales at SSP WorldStor, where he helped raise $40 million in venture capital before the start-up disappeared.

Lincoln also held sales management positions at disk array vendor Storage Dimensions (acquired by Artecon to become Dot Hill), where he managed a U.S. sales staff in eight major markets. Prior to that, he served in sales and service management at EMC.