Herb Schneider

GridIron Systems enables to turn customer's performance-challenged IT environment into the fastest data serving infrastructure on the planet. The GridIron TurboCharger appliance, a combination of custom silicon and novel real-time analytics, boosts application performance and scalability by reducing the data access latency by up to 1,000 times without changing applications, database software, servers, storage, or storage networks. The GridIron TurboCharger enables faster application run times, better user experience due to improved responsiveness, maximized server utilization and increased storage capacity resulting in significantly lower TCO.

Violin Memory, Inc. provides flash-based storage solutions, which is designed to bring storage performance in line with high-speed applications, servers and networks. The company was founded by Jon C. R. Bennett and Donpaul C. Stephens on November 28, 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Nebula, Inc. helps businesses deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The company has developed a hardware appliance that allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive computers. The firm has locations in California and Washington. The company was founded by Chris C. Kemp and Devin Carlen and Steve O'Hara in April 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.