Modius Appoints Mark Harris as Vice President, Product Management

Harris to Spearhead Product Development Efforts for Modius

October 2009

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(October 14, 2009) – Modius, Inc., a leading provider of availability and performance monitoring software for data center management, today announced Mark Harris has joined the team as VP, Product Management. In this new role, Mr. Harris is responsible for the identification of new solution areas for product development and the advancement of strategic marketing initiatives for existing solution sets.

“Modius is proud to be building a team that includes some of the industry’s most notable talent, such as Mark Harris,” said Craig Compiano, CEO, Modius. “Mark will play a pivotal role in assisting Modius in its corporate growth, and in positioning Modius as a strategic IT investment for our customers.”

Most recently, Harris held senior sales, marketing and technology roles at Avocent Corporation. At Avocent, Harris was the business driver and solution architect for Avocent’s entry into the visualization and capacity planning markets, most notably driving the creation of their “Infrastructure Explorer” asset management suite. Prior to Avocent, Harris held similar roles at Cyclades Corporation (acquired by Avocent in March 2006), where he served as the Vice President of Strategic Marketing.

Earlier in his career, Harris held a number of director-level corporate marketing, sales and channel management roles at hardware networking vendors including Extreme Networks, Cabletron (acquired by Enterasys), Netscaler (acquired by Citrix) as well as a lengthy role within Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by HP), focused on the marketing of commercial systems, SAN/NAS storage and Enterprise LAN switching solutions.

“Modius OpenData® offers a one-of-a-kind highly distributed and scalable real-time measurement and monitoring solution for generating a centralized actionable view of all critical facilities across the enterprise of any size,” said Mark Harris. “I am proud to be a part of the Modius team and to bring such a compelling solution to market.”

About Modius

Modius® Inc. develops intelligent measurement systems for mission-critical facilities that improves business continuity, energy performance, and carbon management. Modius provides a next-generation monitoring and measurement suite that captures in real-time the current status of Availability, Capacity and Efficiency (ACE) across an entire enterprise, including all data centers, call centers, and server rooms.