Jeff Tofano CTO, Sepaton

SEPATON, Inc. announced the appointment of Jeffrey Tofano as Chief Technology Officer.
 Jeff will lead SEPATON’s technical direction, driving future product and architectural decisions to take advantage of SEPATON’s ability to address the data protection needs of large enterprises.

In this role, he will lead SEPATON’s breakout strategy, leveraging its grid architecture and deduplication technology to new approaches for data protection. Jeff will report to SEPATON President and CEO, Mike Thompson.
 
"Jeff brings a wealth of related experience to help lead our technical direction, including work with grid architectures, high performance databases, enterprise-class management systems, fault tolerance, primary and secondary storage technologies and data protection solutions," said Thompson. "He will drive SEPATON’s continued focus on providing a highly efficient platform that can address a wide variety of data protection challenges that are unique to large enterprises. Jeff is also the ideal technologist to fulfill our future strategy which leverages our unique IP into broader solutions and markets. Jeff’s track-record of engineering excellence make him a valuable addition to our team."
 
"SEPATON is the only company in the world that is specifically focused on the unique data protection requirements of large enterprise," said Tofano. "The backup, recovery and overall data protection environment is rapidly changing and SEPATON is extremely well-positioned to extend the reach of its current products and to bring exciting, new solutions to market in the near future. I’m very impressed with the company’s technology to address these unique high volume requirements and I’m equally impressed with SEPATON’s engineering talent. I look forward to helping SEPATON expand its product solutions and customer set."
 
Jeff brings experience and technical depth to his position as CTO, which he earned over his thirty-year career in the data protection, storage, and high availability industries. Before joining SEPATON, Jeff was Chief Technology Officer at Quantum Corporation where he established the technical vision and direction of the company, led the advanced development team, and played a key role in new market development and sales activities. Prior to this role, Jeff was Technical Director for Decru/Network Appliance, where he managed the architecture, performance, platform, and security design of all NAS and SAN encryption/compression appliances. He also served as the Chief Architect for Onstor Inc., where he was responsible for their NAS gateway product and led every major product release. His experience also includes senior architect roles with a variety of leading companies, including Oracle Corporation, Tandem Computers, and Stratus Technologies.

Jeff earned a BA in computer science and mathematics from Colgate University.