Faye W. Pairman

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

3Ware, Inc. develops storage solutions for workstations and enterprise level storage such as high-capacity Serial ATA and ATE RAID storage solutions. Its storswitch architecture applies network packet switching to storage controllers, eliminating the bottleneck found in traditional storage architectures. The company has operating divisions in Europe, Asia and Japan. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA

Redline Networks, Inc. used to design and manufacture network appliances that provided security and scalability of web-enabled applications. It was founded in 2000 and was located in Campbell, CA.

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.