Steven Houck

Astute Networks, Inc. develops and manufactures virtualization acceleration appliances. It provides performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments that increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower IT costs. The company was founded by Keith Klarer, Roger Moyer and Osman Fazil on August 7, 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

DataCore Software Corp. develops storage networking software solutions. Its SANsymphony-V is DataCore?s flagship storage virtualization solution maximizes information technology infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware. The company?s storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. DataCore Software was founded by Ziya A. Aral, George S. Teixeira, Roni J. Putra, Timothy J. Logan, Bettye Grant and John Bocskor on February 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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.

EMC Corp. develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. It enables businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service. The company was founded by Richard J. Egan, John Curly and Roger M. Marino on August 23, 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

Corel Corp. engages in the development of software solutions for graphics, productivity, and digital media products. Its products includes CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Painter Essentials 7, PhotoMirage, WinDVD Pro 12, PDF Fusionn, and WinZip Pro. The company was founded by Michael Cowpland in 1989 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Cato Digital, Inc. provides software-defined power solutions for next-generation data centers. The company is based in Milpitas, CA. The company's Virtual Power Systems (VPS) technology platform, Intelligent Control of Energy (ICE), dynamically adjusts power delivery as demand fluctuates across data-center workloads, servers, and racks, enabling data center and cloud providers to generate significant additional revenue within existing power and IT footprints while avoiding millions of dollars in capital expenditures and operating expenses. Additionally, VPS empowers enterprise customers to reduce power infrastructure wait times and costs. The company was founded by Shankar Ramamurthy. Dean Nelson has been the CEO of the company since 2019.