Bernie Rub

SMART Worldwide Holdings, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies memory and embedded storage products. It offers flash memory cards, solid-state drives (SSDs), and DRAM modules for OEMs in the computer, defense, gaming, networking, and telecommunication sectors. The company was founded by Ajay B. Shah and Mukesh D. Patel on March 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

SMART Storage Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and deploys enterprise memory modules and solid-state storage products. It offers enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), such as Optimus SSDs and Optimus Ultra SSDs for mission-critical enterprise storage applications; XceedIOPS SSDs for enterprise computing applications; CloudSpeed 500 SSD for mixed workload applications in enterprise server and cloud computing environments; and XceedStor 500S SSD for the server and cloud computing market. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Maxtor Corp. makes hard disk drives used in PCs used by manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM. Its drives are also used in servers and consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.