Gerald M. Conboy

Verari Systems, Inc. develops and provides computing solutions. Its customers include the enterprises such as Akamai, ConocoPhillips, Lockheed Martin, Lucasfilm Ltd., Northrup Grumman, Qualcomm, Sony Imageworks, Veritas DGC & Walt Disney Feature Animation, as well as top universities, and research institutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1996 by David Driggers, John Smith, Gene Kim, and Victor Hester. Verari Systems is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GridIron Systems enables to turn customer's performance-challenged IT environment into the fastest data serving infrastructure on the planet. The GridIron TurboCharger appliance, a combination of custom silicon and novel real-time analytics, boosts application performance and scalability by reducing the data access latency by up to 1,000 times without changing applications, database software, servers, storage, or storage networks. The GridIron TurboCharger enables faster application run times, better user experience due to improved responsiveness, maximized server utilization and increased storage capacity resulting in significantly lower TCO.

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., Amdahl Corp. is a company that operates an electronic computer manufacturing company. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Raymond A. Williams. Amdahl was acquired by Fujitsu Ltd. on September 19, 1997 for $834.03 million.

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. NetApp® storage solutions include specialized hardware, software, and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments, and Yahoo!, utilize NetApp global data management solutions