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Globally Recognized Entrepreneur and Mobile Operator Veteran Dr. Saad Al Barrak Joins Red Lambda’s Board of Directors


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Orlando, FL – January 4, 2012 –  Red Lambda, Inc., a software company transforming security and operational intelligence for “Big Data” IT and network infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Dr. Saad H. Al Barrak to the company’s board of directors.
 
Dr. Saad brings more than 30 years of experience as an IT and telecommunications leader, executive, and visionary. He is currently Chairman of ILA Co., a newly formed organization that provides venture investment as well as advisory and management services and is focused on emerging opportunities within the telecommunications and relevant technology sectors.
 
Previously, Dr. Saad was Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zain Group. Under his leadership Zain grew from a regional operator with 500,000 subscribers to a mobile powerhouse with 75,000,000 subscribers across the Middle East and Africa generating $8.2 billion in annual revenues and 18X EBIDTA growths in 7 years. Prior to Zain, Dr. Saad was the Managing Director and General Manager of International Turnkey Systems (ITS), an IT systems integration and services company, where he grew revenues from $3M to over $100M in 5 years.
 
“We are very fortunate to have an IT and telecommunications leader and innovator like Dr. Saad join our board,” says Bahram Yusefzadeh, Executive Chairman & CEO of Red Lambda. “Throughout his remarkable career Dr. Saad has capitalized on new technologies and market opportunities and returned extraordinary shareholder value by leveraging his leadership, visionary and operating expertise.”
 
Red Lambda has developed a clean-slate approach to addressing security and operational challenges within the world’s largest IT, network and cloud infrastructures. The company’s platform-based approach combines “big data” computing, storage and analytics with advanced machine learning algorithms to provide universal situational awareness and on-the-fly anomaly and threat detection, and to unlock business value hidden within petabytes of operational data.
 
“The immense volume of data traversing enterprise and service provider infrastructures is creating new challenges and opportunities,” says Dr. Saad Al Barrak. “Red Lambda is ideally positioned to engage this Big Data problem and enable customers to better secure, operate and capitalize on their IT and network infrastructures.”
 
About Red Lambda
Red Lambda (www.redlambda.com) is the foremost provider of security and operational intelligence software for Big Data IT environments that transforms network security, streamlines operations, and unlocks business value from operational data. The company’s ultra-scalable, ultra-fast AppIron™ Grid Platform combines virtual supercomputer, relational stream processing and artificial intelligence technologies to uniquely address the vexing security and operational challenges within the world’s most demanding IT, network and cloud infrastructures. MetaGrid™ is a software application for the AppIron™ Grid Platform that provides complete situational awareness, on-the-fly detection of anomalies and threats, and operational decision support and automation by unifying, analyzing and making actionable IT operational data. The company is initially targeting service providers, cloud providers, web properties, governments, utilities and financial services. 
 
Red Lambda, Inc. is based in Orlando Florida, with operations in Minneapolis and the Silicon Valley. Its products are sold directly and through select global partners and integrators.
Red Lambda, the Red Lambda logo, the Lambda logo, MetaGrid, AppIron, AppIron Grid Platform, Neural Foam, and all other Red Lambda marks contained herein are trademarks of Red Lambda, Inc.



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