Alan Fudge

GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise endpoint data protection solutions. It offers a data protection platform for hard disk encryption, removable storage encryption, authentication, device control, and smartphone protection. The company was founded by Noah Groth in 1984 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security. The company was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

BEA Systems, Inc. provides business software solutions. The firm provides transaction processing systems, telecommunication billing applications, and enterprise financial systems. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Objectspace, Inc. provides infrastructure software products and services. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The CEO of the company is David Norris.

Quest Software, Inc. engages in the design, development, and distribution of enterprise systems management software products. It offers consulting, educational, and support services including Microsoft Platform, data protection, unified endpoint management, performance monitoring, and database management services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Parallels, Inc. provides hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions. The firm’s products include remote application server, desktop for mac business edition, desktop for mac pro edition, mac management for SCCM, desktop for mac, toolbox for mac & windows and parallels access. The company was founded by Aleksey Kandikov, Ilya Zubarev, Juri Tsibrovski, Oleg Melnikov and Serguei Beloussov in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Hortonworks, Inc. engages in the provision of open-source global data management solutions. Its platforms allow enterprises to manage their data on a global basis, whether it is data-in-motion or data-at-rest. It offers the Apache projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark, which individual clients can modify the source code of a particular open-source project and then commit those changes to the central repository. The company was founded by Robert Bearden, Alan F. Gates, Arun C. Murthy, Devaraj Das, Eric Baldeschwieler, Mahadev Konar, Owen O'Malley, Sanjay R. Radia, and Suresh Srinivas in April 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.