Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2002
ROBERT INFANTINO founded Astrum Software Corporation in January 1997, to
develop and market a family of management software specifically focused
on storage and system monitoring in support of IT infrastructure. Prior
to Astrum, Mr. Infantino was Founder and President of AcerSoft
Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, a sales- and marketing-driven
company dedicated to promoting and providing mission critical software
solutions to Fortune 1000 customers. He was also co-Founder and Vice
President of Sales for Acorn Software, Hudson, MA. Both AcerSoft and
Acorn Software served the storage needs of organizations running OpenVMS
on Alpha and VAX platforms. These mission-critical products include:
robotic control and storage management software for high capacity
optical jukeboxes and tape libraries; data compression software; and
hierarchical storage management (HSM) software. Mr. Infantino was Vice
President of Sales and Marketing for storage solution provider American
Digital Systems, Sudbury, MA. He worked as a Software Engineer at GTE in
Westboro, MA, and as an Electrical Engineer for Raytheon, Sudbury, MA.
Mr. Infantino has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Connecticut and has completed coursework at Harvard University. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of the history and theevolution of Astrum?
Mr. Infantino: Astrum Software was founded in 1997 in Boston,
Massachusetts. Astrum delivers storage