Afshin Daghi

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.

Brocade Communications Systems LLC provides semiconductor connectivity solutions. It offers switches, storage networking, routers, software networking, automation, network visibility, mobile networking, transceivers, network management, and professional and residency. The company was founded by Paul R. Bonderson, Jr., Kumar Malavalli, and Seth D. Nieman in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Aprius is a venture-backed company developing technology to bring the performance advantage of PCIe Express to the Ethernet network. Aprius technology extends a server's internal PCIe bus out over the Ethernet network, enabling groups of servers to access and share network-attached pools of PCIe Express devices at near-native PCIe performance levels. Aprius technology enables server vendors to build dense slot-less servers with virtual I/O by connecting the servers to needed PCIe devices such as SAN HBAs, Disk Controllers, and PCIe SSDs over the Ethernet fabric. Aprius gives data center managers dedicated PCIe performance but with the economics of sharing, and allows a broad range of applications with varying I/O needs to be virtualized on cost-effective and homogeneous server infrastructure, reducing costs by nearly 50%.

Moxi Digital, Inc. provides cable and satellite television services. The company designs software and hardware for cable and satellite set-top boxes. It offers home entertainment solutions. Moxi Digital was founded by Steve Perlman in 2000 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.