1. DriveScale Company Overview Presentation
Software Defined Infrastructure for Hadoop and Big Data
DriveScale Company Overview Presentation
April 24, 2017

2. Executive Summary: DriveScale
DriveScale is Software Defined Infrastructure for Hadoop and Big Data
E.g. Spark, Cassandra, NO SQL, and other webscale apps
enables the most efficient & agile infrastructure for Private & Hybrid Clouds
Economical– Save up to 60% vs DAS, Centralized NAS/SAN, or Public Cloud. DriveScale brings HyperScale Hadoop Architecture to Enterprise
Efficient – Get more compute and storage from your HW investment. Up to 3x improvement by pooling resources across clusters
Easy – Uses same servers & drives; No changes to SW stack; Managed by Cloudera Director and HWX Cloudbreak; Improved performance vs alternatives – maintains data locality
Ryan to mention that our founders invented Cisco UCS when talking about this slide.

3. DriveScale Corporate Facts
Software Defined Infrastructure for Hadoop and Big Data
Founded 2013, Sunnyvale, CA
Founders: Satya Nishtala and Tom Lyon, Architects of Sun Workgroup Servers and Desktop, Cisco UCS and inventor of IP Switching
Pelion Venture Partners, Foxconn, Nautilus Venture Partners
Product Launched on May 19, 2016

4. Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist
Executive Team
Gene Banman, CEO
CEO: ClearPower, Zero Motorcycles, NetContinuum
VP/GM Desktops, Sun Micro
President of Sun Japan
Satya Nishtala, CTO
Fellow, System Architect: Nuova (Cisco UCS)
DE, Lead architect: Sun - UltraSPARC workstations and work-group servers, Storage
Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist
Founder: Nuova (Cisco UCS),
Founder: Ipsilon (Nokia)
Emp #8: Sun Micro – SunOS, SPARC, SunScreen
Duane Northcutt, VP Eng.
CTO: Technicolor, Trident, Silicon Image
VP Tech Kealia;
DE and inventor of SunRay, Sun Micro
PhD CS, CMU
F O U N D E R S
Howard Doherty, VP Sales
VP Sales: Arkeia Software (WD), Symphoniq, NetContinuum
Sales Mgr: Netscape, Cisco
S.K. Vinod, VP Product Management
Co-founder: Xsigo Systems
Sun Micro, Product Management
Xerox PARC, imaging system startup venture
This is a snapshot of the executive team. Gene Banman is our CEO and knows the founders from his time as VP/GM of Desktops at Sun Microsystems.
Satya Nishtala is a founder, also once from Sun, and more recently a Nuova Systems and Cisco UCS fellow.
Tom Lyon is another founder, and a very early employee at Sun. He was also a cofounder of Nuova Systems and inventor of IP switching when at Ipsilon.
Duane Northcutt is our third founder, and.. You guessed it! From Sun. He has also served as CTO at Technicolor and Silicon Image, as well as VP of technology at Kealia.
Gene Slide

5. Co Founder and Former EVP
Advisors
Amr Awadallah
Founder/CTO Cloudera
Scott McNealy
Founder – CEO
Sun Microsystems
James Gosling
Creator of Java
Ameet Patel
CTO
JP Morgan, Morgan Labs
Phil Roussey
Co Founder and Former EVP
Bell Micro
We have several investor advisors that we also wanted to call out.
In particular, Amr Awadallah is CTO of Cloudera and his interest in us is hugely validating.
Scott McNealy was the CEO of Sun Microsystems and James Gosling was the creator of Java.
Interesting personalities all.
Gene Slide

6. About DriveScale
Over the last 15 years, a new computing approach has emerged inside Internet scale companies such as Google and Facebook to handle more information and data than ever before. DriveScale is in the business of productizing this modern computing architecture, called Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI), and delivering to ALL enterprises.
DriveScale SDI is disrupter to traditional ways of deploying compute and storage infrastructure by disaggregating and composing compute and storage through software, enabling a modern architecture that breaks through workload limitations without compromise. Our unique SDI solution is complementary to your current datacenter infrastructure and delivers efficiency and an easy experience in a cost effective manner. You no longer need to move to a costly public Cloud environment to enjoy efficiency and scale. We build on your IT investments to deliver lower costs, and higher efficiency and flexibility without compromising security, performance or reliability in a private cloud environment. Our solution is enterprise-ready today, and was built by renowned enterprise technologists from Sun, Cisco and HPE.