Rick belluzzo quantum break

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Belluzzo will take the top spot Sept. 3 from Michael Brown, who will relinquish the title after seven years but will remain with the company as chairman.

Prior to Microsoft, Belluzzo was chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics and also spent 20 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as executive vice president and general manager of the company's Computer Products Organization.

In an interview with CRN, Belluzzo said he decided to leave Microsoft due to a restructuring of the company, which he said had made his position redundant.

Belluzzo said he is no stranger to the storage industry.

At HP, he said he served as marketing manager for that company's disk-drive business, in addition to working in HP's software, services and printer divisions.

"I really have a pretty diverse background, and much of it is around the kind of business that Quantum is in--hardware, software, services--bringing it all in together to help customers Belluzzo takes Quantum leap - CNET FEMUH