Gary Orenstein

MaxiScale's cloud-scale file serving and storage platform is a breakthrough for Internet data centers and storage infrastructure that fundamentally changes the economics of deploying Web-scale applications. The FLEX Software Platform addresses the unpredictable and expanding data requirements facing companies that deliver Internet applications via public and private clouds. It enables customers to reduce capital and operational costs while improving performance by an order of magnitude over competing solutions. MaxiScale's innovative Peer Set architecture and single disk I/O small file operations allow data centers to linearly scale a single namespace to hundreds of petabytes, eliminate forklift upgrades and reduce disk spindle counts by a factor of 10. This results in the ability to scale to 100 times the capacity of current solutions.

Singlestore, Inc. provides in-memory database technology. Its platform offers companies to converge live data with data warehouse to accelerate applications and power real-time operational analytics. The company was founded by Paul Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov, and Adam Prout in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nishan Systems, Inc. develops native IP storage software and technology

Gear6, Inc. develops and markets computer software products. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Compellent Technologies, Inc. provides network storage solutions. The firm provides Fluid Data storage solutions that automate the movement and management of data at a granular level, enabling organizations to constantly adapt to change, slash costs and secure information against downtime and disaster. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Fusion-io LLC developed solid-state architecture and input and output solutions. It provided next generation datacenter solutions that accelerate databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and the applications to drive business from the smallest e-tailers to largest data centers and social media leaders. The company was founded on December 23, 2005 by David A. Flynn and Rick C. White and was headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.