Kevin P. O'Keefe

MaxiScale's cloud-scale file serving and storage platform is a breakthrough for Internet data centers and storage infrastructure that fundamentally changes the economics of deploying Web-scale applications. The FLEX Software Platform addresses the unpredictable and expanding data requirements facing companies that deliver Internet applications via public and private clouds. It enables customers to reduce capital and operational costs while improving performance by an order of magnitude over competing solutions. MaxiScale's innovative Peer Set architecture and single disk I/O small file operations allow data centers to linearly scale a single namespace to hundreds of petabytes, eliminate forklift upgrades and reduce disk spindle counts by a factor of 10. This results in the ability to scale to 100 times the capacity of current solutions.

Fabric7 Systems, Inc. designs and builds enterprise servers for large enterprise data centers. Its solutions unify compute & network services into a single fabric of resources that can be deployed and scaled on demand to meet changing business needs. The company was co-founded by Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas D. Lovett, David Dicioccio & Nakul P. Saraiya in May, 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Storage Technology Corp. manufactured computer storage systems. It designed, developed and delivered easy-to-use storage solutions that help customers manage and protect business critical information throughout its lifecycle, from creation to archival and deletion. The company's storage solutions included a combination of software, services and a variety of storage formats: primary disk, ATA disk, access tape and capacity tape. It was founded in 1969 and was headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Trizetto Corp. provides information technology solutions for healthcare industry. It offers patient access, claims management, denials management, contract management, contract management, and patient financial. The company was founded by Jeffrey H. Margolis in 1997 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Diogenes, Inc. provides transaction messaging software solutions. It enables enterprises to create, deploy, and scale industrial strength transaction networks over the Internet. The company was founded by Harold Piskielis in February 2000 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

NativeMinds, Inc. provided integrated self-service solutions. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.