Rich Pappas

Emulex Corp. provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government, and telecommunications. The firm operates through two business segments: Networking and Visibility Segment. The Networking Segment includes network connectivity products (NCP), storage connectivity products (SCP), and advanced technology and other products. Its SCP include InSpeed, switch-on-a-chip or backend connectivity, bridge, and router products; and the advanced technology and other products consists of its pilot integrated baseboard management controllers and other products and services. The company was founded by Fred B. Cox on February 15, 1979 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

DataDirect Networks, Inc. manufactures scalable storage controllers and networks. The firm’s solutions include academic research, artificial intelligence and deep learning, big data analytics, cloud and web, DDN federal, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, media, microscopy, national laboratories, oil and gas and video surveillance. It also offers products like block storage, flash storage, file storage, AI storage, object storage, monitoring and management. The company was founded by Alex K. Bouzari and Paul Bloch in 1998 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

Storwize, Inc. provided real-time data compression solutions for primary storage. Its product line included the STN-6000p series, an appliance featuring real-time lossless data compression technology that helped companies manage data and storage infrastructure sprawl without compromising performance. The company was founded by Gal Naor and Jonathan Amit in 2004 and was headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Proximal Data, Inc. developed software and storage devices. It accelerated access to data in virtualized compute environments by moving storage closer to the compute processors. The company was founded by Rory Bolt in 2011 and was headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Catalogic Software, Inc. provides data protection services. Its catalogics instant copy data management solutions include enterprise catalog management; Catalogic ECX catalogs files, virtual machines and objects for primary and copy data. The firm's ECX allows storage administrators to create automated workflows for a number of use cases including recovery, disaster recovery, Test/Dev-Dev/Ops, and Big Data/Analytics. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ.