Erik Hardy

Xsigo Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells data center solutions. The company was founded by Ariel Cohen, Cheng Tang, Ashok Krishnamurthi and S. K. Vinod in 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

EMC Corp. develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. It enables businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service. The company was founded by Richard J. Egan, John Curly and Roger M. Marino on August 23, 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

Mercury Interactive Corporation (MIC), used to develop and market a suite of automated software testing solutions and services to the business technology optimization (BTO) marketplace. Its BTO offerings, were known as Mercury Optimization Centers, which consisted of integrated software, services and practices that enable companies to use a center of approach to govern the priorities, processes and people of information technology (IT), deliver & manage applications & integrate IT strategy and execution. MIC offered products and services in three product lines: IT governance, application delivery and application management. It was founded in 1989 and was located in Mountain View, CA.

Hitachi Data Systems Holding Corp. provides modular mid-range and high-end computer data storage systems, software, and services. It offers cloud, bog date analytics, internet of things, converged infrastructure, storage, servers, data protection, application solutions, and industry solutions. The company was founded by Namihei Odaira in 1989 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Brocade Communications Systems LLC provides semiconductor connectivity solutions. It offers switches, storage networking, routers, software networking, automation, network visibility, mobile networking, transceivers, network management, and professional and residency. The company was founded by Paul R. Bonderson, Jr., Kumar Malavalli, and Seth D. Nieman in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nirvanix, Inc. provides enterprise-class cloud storage services. It offers public, hybrid and private cloud services. The company serves the media and entertainment, financial services, life sciences, services providers and healthcare industries. Nirvanix was founded by Patrick Harr and Geoffrey T. Tudor in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

WhipTail Technologies, Inc. manufacturer of solid-state storage arrays. The firm's datacenter and virtual desktop systems dramatically reduce delays related to disk contention and access times - thereby allowing database or virtualization servers to process more data in dramatically less time, while lowering the overall TCO by up to 90 percent when compared to traditional storage. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Whippany, NJ.