PernixData was founded in 2012 to address storage performance challenges, fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers.
The companys flagship software product, PernixData FVP, virtualizes server side flash to enable scale out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum
performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost effective manner.
Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by virtualization experts and is backed by industry luminaries in the software space.
CEO and co-founder at PernixData
John W. Thompson was named CEO of Virtual Instruments in April of 2010. He has been an investor and member of the Virtual Instruments Board of Directors since 2009.
Prior to joining Virtual Instruments, John was chairman of the board and CEO of Symantec Corporation, the leader in internet security, from April 1999 to April 2009. During his 10-year tenure as CEO of Symantec, Thompson transformed the company into a leader in security, storage and systems management solutions, delivering world class products to a global customer base, from individual consumers to many of the worlds largest enterprises. He helped grow revenues from $600M to over $6B in ten years. He continued to serve as chairman of the board until October 2011. John also served in a number of senior leadership roles at IBM Corporation, including general manager of IBM Americas, prior to assuming the CEO role at Symantec.
Bipul Sinha is a Partner at Lightspeed and focuses primarily on Internet, mobile and software sectors, with a particular interest in social utilities/apps and cloud services/infrastructure.
Bipuls current investments include Nutanix, Bromium, Pulse News, MyLikes, and Peel. He was also an investor in LiveProfile.
Previously, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital where he led investments in digital media, Internet and datacenter software infrastructure sectors. His selected investments include DoubleVerify, Nutanix, Hootsuite and CarWoo. Prior to venture capital, Bipul was with Banc of America Technology Investment Banking Group where he worked on M&A and equity financing transactions. Prior to banking, Bipul was Director of database and middleware products with Oracle Corporation. Bipul also held sales and engineering positions at American Megatrends and IBM.
Bipul received his B.Tech.
CTO and co-founder at PernixData
Mark Leslie was the founder, chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. He is currently a board member and investor in a number of high tech start ups. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford Business School, teaching entrepreneurship, sales organizations and ethics.
Mark Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Sales Organization. Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000 Veritas was the tenth largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.
As Technology Evangelist I get to promote the awesome technology that is coming out of PernixData. Public speaking engagements and the use of multiple social media channels provide me the ability to communicate the vision of the company while driving the adoption of the Flash Virtualization Platform.
Besides my role at PernixData I am also a technical advisor for CloudPhysics. In this role I provide strategical guidance for product direction and early product feedback.
I am a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX029) and the main author and owner of the VMware/Virtualization blog FrankDenneman.nl, which has been voted number 2 blog by the virtualization community this year.
I am the co-author of the following books:
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive (2010)
VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive (2011)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive (2012)
I am a regular speaker at industry events like VMworld, VMware Partner Exchange and VMUG events.