Christopher J. McBride

BlueArc Corp. develops and sells clustered network-attached storage systems for storing and managing digital content and unstructured file-based data. The company’s products use a scalable file system that allows for multiple storage appliances (nodes) to be managed as a single pool. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

McData Corp. provided storage networking solutions. Its products include Sphereon switches, embedded blade server switches, eclipse SAN routers, UltraNet extension products, and enterprise fabric connectivity manager management and storage networking services software. The company was founded in 1982 and was headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

Aarohi Communications, Inc. develops intelligent data center networking components and data management solutions. It offers FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. The company was founded by Shanti Subbaraman, Ashwini Choudhary, Amar Kapadia, Mukund Chavan, and Sriram Rupanagunta in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

CompuCom Systems, Inc. provides distributed desktop products and network integration services. Its products include Apple, Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, EMC. HP Enterprise, HP Print and Personal, Intel, Lenovo, Red Hat, ServiceNow, and VMware. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Coho Data, Inc. delivers web-scale storage services for the cloud generation services. It enables businesses to build own high performance web-scale storage for private cloud. The firm develops the first flash-tuned scale-out storage architecture designed for private clouds that delivers unparalleled performance and simplified management at public cloud capacity pricing. The company was founded by Keir Fraser, Ramana Jonnala and Andrew Warfield in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.