James Phillips

NorthScale, Inc. is the elastic data infrastructure software company, provides a new class of data management technology that scales out, enabling customers to dramatically lower data management costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their web applications. Based on the widely used memcached open source technology, the NorthScale server family of elastic data infrastructure software offers substantial cost, performance, and scalability advantages over relational database technology alone, for the vast majority of data associated with web applications. It is designed to enable customers to start where they are, with existing relational database technology and expertise, and incrementally evolve toward a scale-out data architecture for their web applications. Today, NorthScale is in production behind some of the world’s busiest web applications. It powers the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga and provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea’s largest web application operator with over 150 million unique users. Founded in 2009 by leaders of the open source memcached project and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. NorthScale is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.

Teneros, Inc. provides software-as-a-service email continuity, security, and archiving solutions. It specializes in messaging technology, application continuity appliances and disaster recovery appliances. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Gen Digital Inc., Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. is a company that develops and markets utility software. The company is based in Baton Rouge, LA. The company was founded by James M. Phillips, James P. McNiel. Fifth Generation Systems was acquired by Gen Digital Inc. on September 01, 1993 for $46.60 million.

Virsto Software Corp. provides storage virtualization software that works with any block-based storage. Their architecture is designed specifically to handle random, write intensive environments typical in virtual computing-both server and desktop. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Replay Solutions, Inc. provided software solutions for bug fixing. It offered services which included application monitoring, software debugging, and defect resolution technology. The company was founded by Jonathan Lindo and Jeff Daudel in 2004 and was headquartered in Redwood City, CA.