Mario Blandini

SwiftStack, Inc. provides private cloud storage software solutions. The firm offers software defined storage built from the ground-up for web, mobile and as-a-service applications. SwiftStack contains everything customer need to set up, integrate and operate a private storage cloud based on OpenStack Swift. The company was founded by Joe Arnold, Anders Tjernlund, Darrell Bishop and Orion Auld in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Drobo, Inc. provides data storage products for small and medium businesses and individual professionals. Its products include Drobo Mini, Drobo 5C, Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, and Drobo B810n. The firm can improve disk-based backup, file sharing, virtualization, and application strategies. The company was founded by Geoff Barrall and Julian Terry in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Brocade Communications Systems LLC provides semiconductor connectivity solutions. It offers switches, storage networking, routers, software networking, automation, network visibility, mobile networking, transceivers, network management, and professional and residency. The company was founded by Paul R. Bonderson, Jr., Kumar Malavalli, and Seth D. Nieman in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Sanrise Group, Inc., Sanrise, Inc. is a company that provides data management services. The company is based in Dublin, CA. The company was founded by Srinivas Pothapragada, Lakshman Narayanaswamy.

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.