ZeroStack

Ajay Gulati spent many years at VMware working on virtualization technologies that powered a decade of efficiency gains in IT infrastructure. He distinguished his technical acumen with the largest number of patent filings of any employee in VMWare’s illustrious history. Kirin Bondapali gained significant computer architecture and data center infrastructure expertise at SUN Microsystems. Long-time […]

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Virident Systems

In 2006, the founding team of Virident set out to create data storage solutions that would maximize CPU utilization by boosting I/O performance. The company became known for its FlashMAX Connect product, the industry’s first software suite to deliver a shared server-side flash storage tier with enterprise-class reliability. One of the most notable use cases […]

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Mellanox

A kite boarder and scuba diver with a master’s degree in electrical engineering, Eyal Waldman co-founded Galileo Technology with Avigdor Willenz after designing microprocessors at Intel for four years. Galileo was acquired by Marvell. Equipped with significant expertise in high peformance switching and microprocessor design, Eyal, Roni, and their friends Shai Cohen and Michael Kagen […]

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Falcon Computing Solutions

Falcon addresses the world’s insatiable appetite for increased application performance by enabling a new level of customized computing. Falcon’s Merlin compiler software eliminates traditional gate level synthesis, bringing orders-of-magnitude performance and power efficiency improvements to big-data applications in data center environments in a fraction of the time and expense as traditional ASIC or FPGA flows. […]

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Afara WebSystems

Based on research by Stanford CS Professor Dr. Kunle Olukotun, Afara WebSystems was an application server vendor that built the world’s first 8 core, 8 thread per core processor. Afara was acquired by SUN Microsystems. The Afara technology is the foundation of the Niagra and Victoria Falls line of processors, and is the core technology […]

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