Michael Muñoz

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

Z-force, Inc. provides storage network software services. The company develops a network node called a file switch that enables a scalable and intelligent file system and aggregates servers and network attached storage devices into a single name space. Z-force was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Connected Data, Inc. provides elegantly designed solutions for consumers, professionals, and small businesses to privately share, access and protect their data. It consists of the same storage professionals responsible for creating the mighty bluearc silicon server and the slick drobo storage array. The company was founded by Geoff Barrall, David Mendelson, John Turner and John Winfield in 2011 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Part of Nokia Oyj, UB Networks is a networking hardware and software service vendor. The American company was founded by Robert Santore. UB Networks was acquired by Alcatel Networks Corp. from Tandem Computers, Inc. on January 21, 1997 for $100 million.

Data Domain LLC provides deduplication storage systems for disk backup, data archiving, disaster recovery and remote office data protection applications. The company was founded in October 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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.

Nimble Storage, Inc. provided data storage platform. It enabled IT organizations to accurately predict, manage and deliver the storage required to improve business applications and workloads across their IT environments. The company was founded by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari in November 2007 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

PernixData, Inc. develops flash storage virtualization. It provides an enterprise-class software platform for application acceleration. The company develops a software-defined Flash Virtualization Platform that virtualizes server-side flash into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers. PernixData was founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.