Robert Fernander

Gnodal is a company building the largest, fastest, most efficient technology in the world for the high performance data center. Using innovative technology, Gnodal is providing a range of solutions that will revolutionize the data center, significantly reducing power, cooling and total cost of ownership thereby dramatically increasing resource utilization. The unique architecture encompasses the necessary technology to construct large, scalable arrays of servers and storage devices, guaranteeing the highest sustained performance. Gnodal's solutions are future-proof, preserving data center investments as demand increases in performance and capacity. Gnodal's product family is hot pluggable into existing data center infrastructures, enabling data center managers to retain existing system installations, immediately reducing running costs and increasing capability to match performance requirements.

Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Compaq Computer Corp. develops and manufactures a wide range of personal computing products. The company was located in Houston, TX.

StoredIQ Inc. provides enterprise class intelligent information management solutions. It offers scalable analysis and governance of unstructured data in-place across disparate and distributed email, file shares, desktops, and collaboration sites. The company was founded by Jeff Erramouspe and James A. Schellhase in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.