James Whitemore

Cyxtera Data Centers, Inc. provides on-line telecommunications services. The firm strategic approach combines the use of virtualization technology, a utility services model, automated software management and provisioning systems. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Monroe, LA.

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.

Since 2000, Smoothstone has been continuously pushing the boundaries of what´s possible with unified IP communications. Founded by a team of IP technology industry veterans, Smoothstone has pursued a singular vision: to build a scalable, on-demand, hosted IP communications platform specifically for mid-sized enterprises: one capable of delivering a complete package of enterprise communications services and applications which can be fully integrated into existing business processes Its goal has always been to unleash the promise of IP networking-to drive it into every form of enterprise communications and take advantage of IP´s inherent scalability, control, integration and utility as a platform for innovation and business acceleration. In short, the company wants to make IP a part of how its customers business works. The company designed and built a platform and an integrated suite of services specifically for enterprises that need to extend IP communications to hundreds or thousands of employees, in multiple geographic locations.

SolidFire, Inc. provided and develops cloud computing storage platform. The firm delivered data storage systems for cloud service providers. Its solutions included Vmware, SolidFire Agile Infrastructure, Cloud Orchestration, database, and virtual desktop infrastructure. The firm specialized on all-flash scale-out storage architecture with patented volume-level quality-of-service controls. The company was founded by David Wright in 2009 and was headquartered in Boulder, CO.