Francesco Lacapra

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.

Part of Grupo Start People, Quantum provides quantum technology, software, and services to help organizations make their unstructured data smarter. With over 40 years of innovation, Quantum's platform can orchestrate, protect, and enrich data across its lifecycle, providing enhanced intelligence and actionable insights. Quantum is trusted by leading organizations in cloud services, entertainment, government, research, education, transportation, and enterprise IT. Quantum was acquired by Grupo Start People on April 03, 2001.

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.