Varun Nagaraj

Sierra Monitor Corp. provides Industrial Internet of Things solutions that target facility automation and facility safety requirements. Its products include gas detection devices, environmental controllers and field servers. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Echelon Corp. engaged in the development and distribution of open-standard control networking platforms for industrial internet of things applications. It offered chips, control point devices, network interfaces, software, modules, routers, controllers and gateways, motion sensors, and starter and evaluation kits. The company was founded by Armas Clifford Markkula, Jr. in February 1988 and was headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

NetContinuum, Inc. provides ASIC-based web security appliances consolidate all critical DMZ functionality into a single system to enable cost-effective deployment of secure web applications. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Ellacoya Networks, Inc. provides broadband service optimization solutions. It offers visibility across the network and protection from network threats. It offers broadband operators with an IP service management platform that enables them to analyze and manage high-speed data traffic by application and by activity. This platform provides a complete and scalable solution for building intelligent broadband networks and ways to deliver new, revenue-generating services including VoIP and IPTV. The company was founded in 1999 by Kurt Dobbins and is located in Merrimack, NH.

Aprius is a venture-backed company developing technology to bring the performance advantage of PCIe Express to the Ethernet network. Aprius technology extends a server's internal PCIe bus out over the Ethernet network, enabling groups of servers to access and share network-attached pools of PCIe Express devices at near-native PCIe performance levels. Aprius technology enables server vendors to build dense slot-less servers with virtual I/O by connecting the servers to needed PCIe devices such as SAN HBAs, Disk Controllers, and PCIe SSDs over the Ethernet fabric. Aprius gives data center managers dedicated PCIe performance but with the economics of sharing, and allows a broad range of applications with varying I/O needs to be virtualized on cost-effective and homogeneous server infrastructure, reducing costs by nearly 50%.

ParaScale ('Parallel Scalability') was founded in 2004 on the premise that advances in computer hardware over the past ten years make possible better solutions for file storage, management, and distribution. Better means solutions that are more reliable, with more storage capacity, with higher read/write bandwidth, easier-to-manage, and less expensive to buy and operate than ever before. ParaScale recognized the need for a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of digital-content-intensive applications being adopted in the 21st century. These new applications-made possible by declining costs of semiconductors and the growth of the Internet-include video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance management, and medical image remote diagnosis. Adopting the best technologies in software design and leveraging the best tools available, ParaScale has delivered the ParaScale ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system, and the Internet Protocol (IP) networking protocol stack. ParaScale's founders have extensive experience in the development of systems software including operating systems, file systems, and database management systems on which modern applications rely. Members of ParaScale's founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF). Headquartered in Silicon Valley, all of ParaScale's development is conducted in California. Maintaining a disciplined balance between creative design engineers and skeptical quality assurance (QA) engineers, ParaScale is dedicated to delivering hardened system software, expert professional services, and prompt technical support to customers worldwide.

PRTM Management Consultants LLC provides management consulting services. It offers operational strategy consulting, supply chain management, product and service development, and customer value management services. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.