GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. Appoints Brian Ritchie Senior Vice President of Sales to Accommodate Company's Nationwide Expansion

Framingham, MA - GlassHouse Technologies, the leading provider of independent storage services and consulting, today announced the appointment of Brian Ritchie to the post of senior vice president of sales. Ritchie has more than 20 years of high-tech executive, management and sales experience, most recently as president of Blackstone Computing, a $1.4M software and services company in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

"Brian's experience in the storage and biopharmaceutical industries will help propel GlassHouse to the next level of service to our clients, who look to us to provide the highest caliber of vendor-neutral storage services," said Mark Shirman, president and CEO of GlassHouse Technologies. "I am proud to add Brian to a very strong management team."

GlassHouse provides unbiased guidance to companies as they formulate and implement storage strategies that support business objectives. "Our clients would like to manage their data based on its importance to their businesses. They want the right level of access, protection and management for that level of importance," said Brian Ritchie, senior vice president of sales, GlassHouse Technologies. "We help clients classify data by business value, and design and implement storage environments that provide cost-effective protection at every level of value. When data and storage policies are aligned, companies can focus on business rather than worry about hardware or software products."

GlassHouse, which does not sell hardware or software, offers services and consulting that help clients identify the operational and cost performance of their current environments, establish policies and procedures to realize the benefits of investments in storage, and evaluate emerging technologies. GlassHouse's proprietary methodologies support its Storage Management Lifecycle approach to developing and delivering effective, efficient storage infrastructures, enabling clients to rationalize purchases, optimize value at risk (VaR), ROI and TCO, and drive continuous operational improvement. GlassHouse also offers Storage Education to train clients and other IT personnel responsible for optimizing and scaling new or existing storage environments, Solution Maintenance to regularly assess performance metrics, and proof-of-concept testing and validation through its Storage Interoperability Lab Service.

About GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. provides services that help organizations solve the business problems of enterprise storage. From strategy through implementation, operations and support, GlassHouse partners with clients to achieve predictability and manageability in storage and backup operations, transforming storage into a strategic advantage. GlassHouse clients include Biogen Idec, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB), Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., Pitney-Bowes, Inc. (NYSE: PBI) and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. More information about GlassHouse is available at www.glasshouse.com.