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About |
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C2 Appliance is building an ultra high-performance, open-source database server using a breakthrough chip technology. The co-founders are serial entrepreneurs who jointly hold over 50 patents. The company is backed by three of the best-known Silicon Valley venture firms. C2 Appliance is currently in stealth mode.
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Founders |
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Raj Cherabuddi
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| Founder and CEO, President |
Raj Cherabuddi is a seasoned executive, experienced in both the startup and corporate worlds. Prior to founding C2, he was the founding CEO of Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was later successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, now part of Brocade. Today, Sanera’s nSCALE technology and the Intrepid 10000 product are at the heart of thousands of data centers worldwide. At McDATA, Raj served as the corporate CTO for nearly two years where he advised on strategy and was responsible for future technologies. Before founding Sanera Systems, he served as a lead architect at Sun Microsystems. |
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Joseph I. Chamdani |
| Founder and CTO, Vice President |
Dr. Joseph Chamdani is an accomplished technologist. Prior to founding C2, he was co-founder, Chief Systems Architect, and VP Systems Integration at Sanera Systems, which was later acquired by McDATA. At Sanera and McDATA, Joe led the architecture design for the high-end switching systems and fabric-based storage virtualization and services using hardware acceleration. Before Sanera, he was the lead architect for Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC IIIplus and UltraSPARC IV microprocessors for their high-end SMP servers, with a focus on improving database performance. He received his Ph.D from Georgia Tech and currently holds 28 issued patents in domains relating to computer architecture, microprocessors, compilers, networking, storage, and circuit design. |
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