Daniel E. Lenoski

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

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.

Barefoot Networks, Inc. designs and develops Ethernet switch chips. It specializes in cloud network architectures, P4-programmable high-speed data paths, switch silicon development, P4 compilers, driver software, network telemetry and computational networking. The company was founded by Martin Izzard, Patrick Bosshart, Daniel E. Lenoski and Nick McKeown in May 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Growth Networks, Inc. designs and markets high-speed switches. Its Internet Switching Fabric is a new category of networking silicon that interconnects the input and output ports within high-end switches and routers. The company was founded in October 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Nuova Systems, Inc. provides networking solutions. The firm products include storage area networks, fiber channel over Ethernet, fewer interface cards per server and access-layer switches. The company was founded by Mazzola, Luca Cafiero, Prem Jain and Soni Jiandani and is located in Santa Clara, CA.