John E. Derrick

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Skywriter Systems, Inc. provides technology services. The company is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Conformative Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures computer systems. The company was founded by John E Derrick, Ram Ramarao and Arie Brish in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Jelastic, Inc. provides software web applications. The firm enables hosting companies to deliver a hosting platform to developers, system integrators, custom developers, design agencies, php and java developers, game and app designers, web developers and designers, and businesses of all sizes. The company was founded in 2011 by Ruslan Synytsky, Constantin Alexandrov, and Alexey Skutin and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd. provides Software Defined Radio (SDR) based integrated circuits (ICs) and modules for video, audio and data communication. It offers products such as demodulator, modulator, multi-standard modems, and reference design kits. The company was founded by Parag Naik, Vishwakumara Kayargadde, and Hemant Mallapur in December 2006 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Part of CEVA, Inc., Chicory Systems, Inc. is a company that provides semiconductor intellectual property. The company is based in Austin, TX. Chicory Systems was acquired by Parthus Technologies Plc on May 15, 2001 for $75.47 million.