Adalio Sanchez

Quantum has announced that its board of directors has appointed Patrick Dennis as president and CEO. Dennis was most recently president and CEO of Guidance Software and has also held senior executive roles in strategy, operations, sales, services and engineering at EMC. He succeeds Adalio Sanchez, a member of Quantum’s board who had served as interim CEO since early November 2017. Sanchez will remain on the board and assist with the transition. “Patrick has been a successful public company CEO and brings a broad range of experience in storage and software, including a proven track record leading business transformations,” said Raghu Rau, Quantum’s chairman. “The other board members and I look forward to working closely with him to drive growth, cost reductions, and profitability and deliver long-term shareholder value." "We also want to thank Adalio for stepping in and leading the company during a critical transition period. During my time as CEO, I’ve greatly appreciated the commitment to change I’ve seen from team members across Quantum and will be supporting Patrick in any way I can to build on the important work we started,” said Sanchez. Business expertise Dennis served as president and CEO of Guidance Software, a provider of cyber security software solutions, from May 2015 until its acquisition by OpenText last September. During his tenure, he turned the company around, growing revenue and significantly improving profitability. Before joining Guidance Software, Dennis was senior vice president and chief operating officer, Products and Marketing, at EMC, where he led the business operations of its $10.5 billion enterprise and mid-range systems division, including management of its cloud storage business. Dennis spent 12 years at EMC, including as vice president and chief operating officer of EMC Global Services, overseeing a 3,500-person technical sales force. In addition to his time at EMC, he served as group vice president, North American Storage Sales, at Oracle, where he turned around a declining business. Maximising strategic value “With its long-standing expertise in addressing the most demanding data management challenges, Quantum is well-positioned to help customers maximise the strategic value of their ever-growing digital assets in a rapidly changing environment,” said Dennis. “I’m excited to be joining the company as it looks to capitalise on this market opportunity by leveraging its strong solutions portfolio in a more focused way, improving its cost structure and execution, and continuing to innovate.”

Quantum Corp. has reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2017 ending Friday 31 March 2017.  Quantum is an expert in scale-out tiered storage, archive and data protection, providing intelligent solutions for capturing, sharing and preserving digital assets over the entire data lifecycle. Fiscal fourth quarter 2017 financial results(All comparisons are relative to the fiscal fourth quarter 2016 unless otherwise stated. Total revenue was $120.8 million, up from $120.0 million. Branded revenue was $103.5 million, a 7 per cent increase. Scale-out tiered storage revenue was $31.0 million, compared to $33.1 million, primarily reflecting fewer large deals than the same quarter a year earlier. Total data protection revenue grew 5 per cent to $79.7 million, consisting of $21.5 million in disk backup systems revenue (up 19 per cent), $40.2 million in tape automation revenue (down 10 per cent overall, with OEM revenue down 45 per cent and branded revenue flat) and $18.1 million in devices and media revenue (up 38 per cent). Royalty revenue was $10.1 million, compared to $11.0 million. GAAP operating income was $1.1 million, and non-GAAP operating income was $4.2 million, compared to a loss of $50.1 million and income of $8.2 million, respectively. (Fiscal fourth quarter 2016 results included a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $55.6 million.) GAAP net loss was $1.9 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss of $52.9 million, and non-GAAP net income was $1.6 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $6.2 million. Fiscal 2017 full year financial results(All comparisons are relative to the fiscal 2016 full year results unless otherwise stated.) Total revenue grew 6 per cent to $505.3 million, up from $476.0 million. Branded revenue grew 11 per cent to $432.1 million, up from $388.3 million. Scale-out tiered storage revenue grew 17 per cent to $148.4 million, up from $126.5 million. Total data protection revenue grew 3 per cent to $318.2 million, consisting of $84.6 million in disk backup systems revenue (up 16 per cent), $172.7 million in tape automation revenue (down 9 per cent overall, with OEM revenue down 27 per cent and branded revenue down 3 per cent) and $60.9 million in devices and media revenue (up 33 per cent). Royalty revenue was $38.8 million, compared to $41.2 million. GAAP operating income was $12.1 million, and non-GAAP operating income was $23.0 million, compared to a loss of $67.8 million and income of $3.9 million, respectively. GAAP net income was $3.6 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income was $15.8 million, or $0.46 per diluted share, compared to a loss of $76.4 million and $3.3 million, respectively.  Leveraging flash technology "Our solid fourth quarter results closed out a year of strong overall performance and execution" “Our solid fourth quarter results closed out a year of strong overall performance and execution,” said Jon Gacek, President and CEO of Quantum. “We generated year-over-year growth and significantly improved profitability in a year of ongoing industry disruption. One of the keys to this success was the fact that we grew scale-out tiered storage revenue for the ninth consecutive year, building on our leadership in traditional rich media markets and expanding our footprint in new verticals and use cases. In addition, despite continuing challenges in the data protection market, we turned around this part of our business in fiscal 2017, driving significant growth in disk backup systems and extending our position as the market leader in tape automation.” “From a product standpoint, we delivered innovative new solutions and features for scale-out tiered storage, disk backup and tape archive, including new ways to leverage flash technology and the cloud. Finally, we secured a large financing package that addresses our November 2017 convertible debt and provides a stable, more flexible capital structure over the next five years. All of this makes us well-positioned for further success in fiscal 2018 and beyond.” Updating strategic direction for 2018 “We are also excited about the addition of Adalio Sanchez and Marc Rothman to our board of directors and expect to add the final director in our reconstituted board this month. As soon as the new board is fully in place, we will go through a comprehensive strategic review—taking a detailed look at the market and its trends, our product and solution capabilities, our sales model, R&D roadmaps, expenses and areas of investment, and capital structure—and then make decisions on how to take Quantum to the next level and drive increased shareholder value.”“When that process is complete, we will provide guidance for fiscal 2018 and update our strategic direction for the year and beyond. In the meantime, our current expectation is that we will grow total revenue year-over-year in the fiscal first quarter, driven by growth in scale-out tiered storage revenue.”Other recent business highlights Building on its momentum in video surveillance, Quantum closed the highest number of surveillance deals in a quarter to date, which included its first surveillance sales wins in life sciences use cases. Four additional video management software (VMS) partners were also certified to support the company’s full range of scale-out storage tiers, bringing the total number of VMS partners certified for full tiering to 20 and covering 80 per cent of the market. Adding to Quantum’s industry accolades, Milestone Systems—one of the top VMS providers—named Quantum ‘Technology Partner of the Year’ for 2016 in the Americas and, for the second consecutive year, ‘Best Solution Partner’ in the Asia Pacific region. Quantum announced purpose-built 4K video reference architectures that leverage the company’s StorNext-powered, disk- and flash-based workflow storage systems to maximise 4K stream counts and optimise performance levels in accordance with users’ specific needs. Based on exhaustive testing with real-world metrics, the new reference architectures empower media facilities to make better-informed investments in 4K storage infrastructure. Quantum announced a strategic relationship with Veritone Inc., a provider of cognitive analytics Quantum announced a strategic relationship with Veritone Inc., a provider of cognitive analytics. Veritone aiWARE—a hybrid on-premise and cloud version of Veritone’s best-in-class, cloud-based artificial intelligence platform—will be offered as an integrated solution with StorNext. This combination will allow users to leverage the power of Veritone’s cognitive analytics—along with top cognitive engines in areas such as face detection, object recognition and transcription—to extract new value from their on-premise video and audio content without having to move it to the cloud.The company introduced StorNext 6, a major new release of the StorNext platform that provides a unique combination of performance and advanced data management It is designed to help users overcome the challenges of working with growing volumes of higher-resolution content and enable them to capitalise on the opportunities to re-monetise or re-purpose that content. Features include more efficient and cost-effective ways to meet project performance demands, share and access content across geographically distributed teams, and manage and protect archived content. Quantum’s board of directors approved a 1-for-8 reverse stock split of its common stock, which began trading on a split-adjusted basis on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. The company appointed Adalio Sanchez and Marc Rothman to its board of directors. Sanchez is a 35-year information technology industry veteran who spent most of his career at IBM Corp., including 16 years in senior executive and global general management roles. He is currently president of S Group Advisory LLC, a firm providing expertise and management consulting services. Rothman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at VeriFone Inc., responsible for leading the company’s finance, information technology, and real estate organisations, and has more than 30 years of global finance and merger and acquisition experience.

Quantum Corp. announces the appointments of Adalio Sanchez and Marc Rothman to Quantum’s board of directors. Sanchez is a 35-year information technology industry veteran who spent most of his career at IBM Corp., including 16 years in senior executive and global general management roles. He is currently president of S Group Advisory LLC, a firm providing expertise and management consulting services. Rothman is executive vice president and chief financial officer at VeriFone Inc., responsible for leading the company’s finance, information technology, and real estate organisations, and has more than 30 years of global finance and merger and acquisition experience. “Adalio and Marc bring a broad range of business and technology experience to Quantum’s board,” said Paul Auvil, Quantum’s chairman of the board. “Along with the other directors and Quantum management team, I look forward to drawing on their knowledge and expertise as the company strives to build on its positive market momentum over the past year in scale-out tiered storage and data protection and deliver increased shareholder value.” Adalio Sanchez previous experience Prior to assuming his current position at S Group Advisory in 2015, Sanchez served as senior vice president/officer at Lenovo Group Ltd. for a year. In that role, he led Lenovo’s $5 billion global division focused on enterprise server/storage, cloud and data centre technologies. From 1982 to 2014, Sanchez worked at IBM, rising to become general manager, modular systems, where he ran two divisions with total annual revenues of $6 billion. Other leadership positions he held at IBM included vice president of corporate strategy and various general manager roles, including general manager of UNIX Systems and chief operating officer of IBM’s personal computer (PC) business. Sanchez began his career as an engineer working on IBM’s second PC. Marc Rothman previous experience Prior to joining VeriFone in 2013, Rothman served as the chief financial officer of Motorola Mobility Inc., where he played a central role in Motorola Mobility’s spinoff from its former parent company, Motorola Inc., as well as its sale to Google in 2012. During his 12-year tenure at Motorola, he also served in a number of senior finance leadership positions across the company, including chief financial officer in several of its global business segments (public safety, networks and enterprise, and mobile devices) and senior vice president and corporate controller. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche, Audit Advisory Services. Sanchez and Rothman were appointed to Quantum’s board as part of an agreement the company reached with VIEX Capital Advisors in early March of this year to reconstitute the board with a majority of new, independent directors. They replaced current board members John Mutch and Jon Gacek (Gacek remains president and CEO of Quantum). “The director search process went well, resulting in a pool of highly qualified and capable candidates,” said Eric Singer, founder and managing member of VIEX. “I appreciate this constructive collaboration with Quantum and look forward to identifying a third new board member. We strongly support all members of the reconstituted board as they build on the company’s industry leadership and market opportunities to generate significant value for all Quantum shareholders.”