Steve Ackley

MonoSphere, Inc. designs and develops storage capacity management software that enables companies to forecast, plan and optimize their storage capacity. Its storage horizon solution reduces spending on storage infrastructure. The company was founded by Avi Shillo in March 2001 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Satmetrix Systems, Inc. provides cloud-based customer experience software solutions.The firm offers enterprise programs, such as net promoter that enables to create an enterprise view of the customer experience by monitoring interaction points and evaluating the overall health of customer relationships; and business-to-business solutions that provide alerts and triggers, role-specific reporting, integration, and relationship analysis, as well as segmentation, role-based survey design, and wave management. The company was founded by Andre O. Schwager, Roselie Buonauro, David Renaud and Kathryn S. Hanson in February 1997 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Vicinity Corp. is one of the leading provider of Internet-based infrastructure marketing services for companies. The company's solutions is available in 18 countries and in 10 languages it enables the clients to direct their customers searching for a specific product or service to the nearest store that carries that product or service.

Marimba, Inc. provides software solutions. It provides updates and repairs of software applications on desktops, laptops, servers, and handheld devices. The company was founded by Kim Polese in 1996 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

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.

Altiscale, Inc. provides hadoop as a service for data science. It addresses issues that customers run into in production, such as job failures, resource contention, performance optimization and infrastructure upgrades. The firm eliminates the time-consuming steps of procuring and provisioning hardware, installing and configuring hadoop, and managing hadoop clusters in production. The company was founded by Raymie Stata in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.