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President
Evolving Solutions

Press Release

Data Domain Names David Sangster as Vice President of Operations

PALO ALTO, CALIF. - November 17, 2004 - Data Domain, the leader in enterprise data protection solutions, today announced the appointment of David Sangster as its vice president of Operations. In this newly created position, Sangster will oversee the company’s manufacturing operations, including new product introduction, product quality and reliability, design for manufacturability, and supply chain strategy.

“David is a great addition to our growing company. His impressive track record managing in highly competitive work environments, launching new products, and utilizing process improvement techniques to leverage best practices and skill sets to increase customer loyalty and improve financial results, will be vitally important to the growing sales pipeline at Data Domain,” said Frank Slootman, CEO and president of Data Domain. “He has excellent relationships in the industry and his extensive background in operations, including both engineering and manufacturing, will be of tremendous value to the company as we continue to grow and evolve.”

Sangster brings more than 15 years of product development, manufacturing and operations experience to the company. Before joining Data Domain, Sangster held executive positions at McDATA Corporation and Nishan Systems, where he developed the manufacturing and supply chain capabilities to scale revenue from $1M to $20M in 15 months. Previously, Sangster was also director of Manufacturing at ConvergeNet Technologies (acquired by Dell Computer) and he also spent 11 years at Hewlett Packard where he held a variety of engineering, manufacturing and management positions supporting product development in the printer, personal computer, mass storage and high-end server business units.

Sangster holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

About Data Domain

Data Domain offers reliable, cost-effective data restoration solutions that enable enterprise customers to more easily manage enterprise data. Designed by renowned storage experts, the Data Domain solutions seamlessly integrate with industry-leading backup software applications and were designed from the ground up to optimize data protection. For more information on Data Domain products, visit www.datadomain.com.

Contact Information

Data Domain

Edward Luboja
203-210-7404
press@datadomain.com