Jon Ashley

META Group, Inc. provides research and analysis for information technology trends & markets. The firm's advisory services, which include research, on-site briefings, strategic plan reviews, phone consultations and conferences. It is specialized in enterprise architecture, e-commerce and global networking, as well as industry-specific programs. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

National Association of Broadcasters operates a broadcast association. It promotes and protects the interests of radio and television broadcasters. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Blue Mantis provides hybrid cloud services and system integration. It offers digital transformation, cloud enablement and operations, and infrastructure modernization. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Kittery, ME.

KOM Networks, Inc. provides storage management software solutions. Its products consolidate diverse storage devices into common resource pools to help storage management and policy based automated data migration. The company's software also extends storage management solutions to third party applications such as e-mail archiving, enterprise content management and document management systems. KOM Networks was founded by Kenneth O. Mair in 1969 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

EMC Corp. of Canada manufactures computer data storage systems. Its products include RAID systems and network attached storage file servers. The firm also provides consulting, integration, support, and training services. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) is a professional society of media professionals, technologists, and engineers working in the digital entertainment industry. The private company is based in White Plains, NY. The society fosters a diverse and engaged membership from both the technology and creative communities, delivering vast educational offerings, technical conferences and exhibitions, the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, and access to a rich network of colleagues essential to career success. SMPTE people form a professional society of individuals and corporations collaborating for the advancement of all things technical in the motion picture, television, and digital media industries.

Australian Computer Society provides professional technology services. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

CISSDM provides managed, hosted and professional services. It engages in planning, designing, integrating, operating and optimizing networking and system solutions. The firm’s solutions include help desk and infrastructure monitoring, information security, microsoft consulting, virtualization consulting, hosted network solutions, data center and collocation services, network design and implementation, business continuity and disaster recovery and data management. The company was founded by Michael T. Cook in 2001 and is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. is an industry standards organization that creates open manageability specifications for diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers, and storage. The non-profit company is based in Portland, OR. Member companies and alliance partners worldwide collaborate on standards to improve the interoperable management of information technologies.

Mosaic Technology Corp. provides technology solutions for organizations worldwide. The private company is based in Salem, NH, and has worked with clients such as the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. With over 27 years of experience, the company offers IT products and services, from design to implementation, equipment to maintenance.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Clara, CA. SNIA is a trusted authority for storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise worldwide. The private company's mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. The company provides education, best practices, and technology guides on all matters related to the protection and privacy of data. SNIA embraces open source development and standards in a variety of ways and defines recommended behavior for hardware and software that supports computational storage. The company also defines a standard interface that applications can use to perform iscsi management independent of the vendor of the iscsi hba.

Rancher Labs, Inc. provides infrastructure software services. Its software is designed for DevOps teams, to run mission-critical production workloads. The firm’s products include rancher, RKE, Longhorn and K3s. The company was founded by Sheng Liang, Shannon Williams, Darren Shepherd and Will Chan in 2014 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Imanis Data, Inc. develops subscription based data availability management solutions. It integrates machine learning with unique storage optimization technology to reduce the costs associated with backup, recovery, and other data management functions across NoSQL, Hadoop and modern data warehouse products. The company was founded by Hari Mankude, Nitin Donde, Shailesh Parulekar and Srinivas Vadlamani in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Datos IO, Inc. develops time management software for enterprise. Its products include scale-out software, scalable versioning, reliable recovery and semantic deduplication. The firm offers backup and recovery, cloud data protection and big data solutions. The company was founded by Tarun Thakur and Prasenjit Sarka in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.