Spencer Shepler

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.

Part of Internet Society, The Internet Engineering Task Force is a technical standards body that gathers a large international community of network designers, engineers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the internet architecture and the smooth operation of the internet. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The IETF seeks broad participation and its work takes place online, largely through email lists, reducing barriers to participation and maximizing contributions from around the world. More than 120 IETF working groups are organized by topic into areas such as routing, transport, and security.

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.