History (1995): Barbara Grant GM of IBM Storage

Barbara Grant has been promoted GM of the entire storage subsystems activity at IBM SSD (San Jose, CA).

She reports to Ed Zschau, GM of Big Blue’s SSD division, and is one of few women in the storage business to reach such a high position.

Her post is parallel to that of Ray AbuZayyad, GM of Storage Products Company (SPC).

Previously, Grant was in charge of heads development and manufacturing, and she remains VP of development and process re-engineering.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 89, published on June 1995.

Note: She was CEO of Siros Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup that developed optical components and subsystems for the communications and storage markets.