Mark Delsman

Maxtor Corp. makes hard disk drives used in PCs used by manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM. Its drives are also used in servers and consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of O-I Glass, Inc., SeaGate, Inc. is a company that specializes in glass containers. The company is based in Shrewsbury, MA.

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Virident Systems, Inc. developed flash-based storage class memory solutions. It offered solid state disks for data-intensive workloads, such as databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization, and computing applications. The firms products included FlashMAX II and Virident vFAS. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy, Rajesh Parekh and Vijay Karamcheti in 2006 and was headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Pliant Technology, Inc. developed, manufactured and marketed data storage systems. The company was founded by James M. McCoy, Aaron Olbrich, Mike Chenery and Doug Prins in 2006 and was headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.