Russell M. Lait

Alacritech, Inc. provides storage network acceleration solutions. It offers ANX 1500 network file system (NFS) acceleration appliance, a network storage throughput appliance that provides a performance layer to the existing network-attached storage, as well as improves the performance of a NAS infrastructure. Alacritech was founded by Laurence Bernard Boucher in 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Auspex Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, distributes and supports a line of multi-protocol (NFS(1), CIFS(2) and FTP(3)) Network Attached Storage (“NAS”) devices also referred to as network file servers, network filers, NAS Gateways and NAS Heads (Network Attached Storage Gateways which utilize any storage connected to the SAN fabric). The products are predominantly based on internally developed software and are portable to standard industry processor boards, which can be deployed in a variety of packaging