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GlassHouse Picks Auspex's Bones: Page 2 of 2

However, Shirman acknowledges that the support services group represents "a tangential piece of business for us." He says the bigger opportunity for GlassHouse, which provides storage network design and implementation services, is to help those customers migrate to a new NAS infrastructure or provide them other consulting services.

"The [Auspex] box is basically twilighted, so they'll have to upgrade at some point," Shirman says.

As part of the transaction, Framingham, Mass.-based GlassHouse will hire about 20 Auspex employees, which will bring the company's headcount to "a little over 80 and a little less than 100," according to Shirman. [Ed. note: Ummm... so that's, like, probably 90 or so?]

Tom Ludden, formerly VP of Auspex's customer services group, will head the new business unit. Ludden will report to Michael Tobin, senior VP of operations at GlassHouse.

Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch