Azingo™, formerly Celunite, has quickly established itself as a leader in the rapidly growing market for open mobile phone software, capable of delivering Internet-enabled, rich user experiences to the more than one billion mobile handsets sold globally each year. The company develops and licenses a next-generation platform based on Linux and other open source innovations that power new classes of consumer products which entertain, inform, and enrich the lives of people worldwide.
Azingo is unique in offering a one-stop solution for designing and commercializing new mobile phone products, selling its advanced software together with comprehensive engineering services. It’s innovative, flexible and production-ready mobile phone operating system, middleware, applications, and software tools significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for the entire mobile phone industry—chipset manufacturers, handset manufacturers, integrators, and operators.
The company’s executives are experienced leaders who have shaped the mobile industry. Azingo is privately-held with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California and development centers in Pune and Hyderabad, India. Azingo—The Future of Mobile is Open™.
Mahesh Veerina is the founder and CEO of Azingo, Inc. In addition to serving at companies such as Nokia, Amdahl Corp. and Synoptics during his 18 years in the technology industry, Veerina founded Ramp Networks, Inc. and FlowWise Networks, Inc. Veerina also co-founded, advised, and served on the boards of several venture-backed technology startups in Silicon Valley.
Please visit www.azingo.com for more information about Azingo.
BLADE Network Technologies is the leading provider of network infrastructure to the blade server market. BLADE’s products represent a strategic point in a blade server system as the gateway for all traffic directed to and from a blade server system. As the strategic control point, the switches have a direct influence on a blade server system’s performance, high availability, scalability, manageability, security, and total cost of ownership.
Jointly owned by Garnett & Helfrich Capital and Nortel, BLADE has shipped $200 million worth of product. The company has more than 53,000 switches and 1.2 million Gigabit Ethernet ports in production at approximately 50 percent of Fortune 500 enterprises. BLADE is a strategic partner with the world’s two leading blade server vendors — IBM and HP.
Vikram Mehta, co-founder of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU), came over from Nortel to serve as BLADE’s President and CEO. At Nortel, he was responsible for product management, research and development, sales, marketing, business development, and OEM support. Under his leadership, BSSBU became one of Nortel’s fastest growing business units.
Please visit www.bladenetwork.net for more information about Blade Network Technologies.
Ingres Corporation is the world's leading provider of business open source relational databases for companies of all sizes. Ingres Corporation’s mission is to supply the market with the best database technology at a price point that enables customers, both large and small, and partners to reduce their Total Cost of Ownership. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres Corporation is a young and dynamic company.
Ingres Corporation was formed as a partnership between Computer Associates and Garnett & Helfrich with a product range that has loyal customer base, many of whom have been using the technology for more than a decade. Ingres Corporation is a global company with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia to support its wide spread community of users.
Roger Burkhardt serves as Ingres’s president and chief executive officer. In this role, he is responsible for corporate strategy, development and engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Mr. Burkhardt also serves on the company’s Board of Directors.
Please visit www.ingres.com for more information about Ingres Corporation.
MTI is a leading international provider of consulting services and comprehensive information infrastructure solutions for mid to large-size organizations. With more than 20 years of expertise as a storage technology innovator, MTI is uniquely qualified to assess, design, implement, and support whole-office data storage and backup initiatives. MTI enjoys strategic partnerships with several industry leaders, including EMC (NYSE:EMC), CA (NYSE:CA), Quantum (NYSE:QTM), and Overland (NASDAQ:OVRL). MTI offers the best data storage, protection, and management solutions available today. By employing a strategic, consultative approach, MTI Europe provides customers with a single point of contact that eliminates complexities while delivering operational efficiencies and competitive advantages.
Keith Clark is the new President and CEO of MTI. Prior to this role, he ran MTI Europe for the last 8 years of his 18 years with MTI and was a prime force in delivering profitable growth across all the European entities. During his career, he also served as worldwide COO for MTI Corporation USA. Keith, working closely with Garnett & Helfrich Capital, played a key role in establishing MTI Europe as an independent company.
Please visit www.mti.com for more information about MTI.
Openwater Software builds a new category of Internet services, called service networks, which leverage consumer Internet technologies. These service networks reduce the cost and improve the quality of servicing software by an order of magnitude over previous solutions. These service networks will enable 7×24, global, personal, instant, multi-channel service for both producers and consumers of software.
Michael Rocha and Timothy Chou are co-founders of Openwater, Inc. Both Mr. Rocha and Dr. Chou have extensive technology management and development experience, and have held global leadership positions at Oracle Corporation. Before founding Openwater, Inc., Mr. Rocha was Executive Vice President of Global Support Services and Platform Technology at Oracle Corporation, and Dr. Chou was President of Oracle Corporation’s Oracle On Demand.
Please visit www.openwaternet.com for more information about Openwater.
Wyse is the world’s leading provider of network-centric computing solutions. Wyse provides the hardware, software, and services that shift computing complexity to the network, freeing IT departments from unnecessary support and maintenance functions, empowering users to be more productive in their jobs, and protecting and improving access to critical information and business applications.
Tarkan Maner serves as Wyse’s president and chief executive officer. Since he joined Wyse in 2005, in addition to his current role, he has also overseen global sales, marketing, channels, business development, and customer service organizations and programs. Previously, Mr. Maner has held management roles at Computer Associates and IBM.
Wyse Technology, founded in 1981, introduced the industry’s first Windows-based terminal in 1995. Today, Wyse counts over 40 percent of the Fortune 100 as customers and is the worldwide leader in thin-clients with 35 percent market share according to analyst firm IDC.
Please visit www.wyse.com or the Wyse Video Portfolio for more information about Wyse Technology.