RTS was founded by an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs to redefine storage based on open industry standards.
See the rising tide. A number of technological inflection points are confluencing to drive profound change in external data storage: Flash memory is redefining its performance and economics, arrays with powerful CPUs are refactoring its architectural boundaries, converging SAN fabrics and commodity hardware are accelerating its proliferation, and virtualization and cloud computing are pushing its elasticity. RTS brings it all together with a new class of storage software in a new class of storage systems, based on its emerging industry-standard Unified Target engine.
About Us
Background
RTS has established its Unified Target, which is at the core of its products, as a the standard storage engine in Linux.
Leadership Team
Marc Fleischmann
CEO. Marc brings business and systems leadership to the team. Before co-founding RTS, he helped building a number of companies and non-profits in various roles. He built Pixelworks' (Nasdaq: PXLW) DTV business as GM and SVP, helped building Transmeta to its IPO as Executive Director, and was an OS Architect at HP Labs (Nasdaq: HPQ). Marc holds MS and BS degrees in Business and Engineering from KIT, along with a number of patents. Described variously as focused, passionate, humorous, decisive and dynamic, Marc is driving a company culture that reflects his own brand of energetic discipline and spirit.
Nicholas Bellinger
CTO. Nic brings extensive expertise in IP storage to the team. Before co-founding RTS, he was the Principal Architect at SBE, an IP storage company, funded by Stonestreet and AGIH, and then the Principal Architect and Co-founder of PyX, a company that developed iSCSI storage software, acquired by SBE in 2005. Nic is the principal author of the LIO Linux Unified Target. In his precious spare-time, he enjoys proliferating LIO onto every platform he can get his hands on, and skillfully defying gravity in the half pipe.
Jerome Martin
Chief Architect. Jerome is a high-availability and storage expert with an extensive background in telecommunications. He was the Chief Network Architect of Longphone, a French Telco and VoIP operator founded in 1999, the Lead Telecoms Engineer at Western Telecom, where he built a fully virtualized HA platform to increase systems availability from <90% to 99.99%, and Acting CTO at Mandriva (Nasdaq: MLMAN), where he helped delivering a successful IPO. Jerome enjoys categorizing the real world in terms of failure models, and he is an avid connoisseur of French gourmet food, great wines and savoir vivre.
Fred Patton
CFO. Fred has worked with venture-financed companies in the high technology sector for more than 25 years. With his depth of experience and insight into entrepreneurs and their enterprises, he develops all aspects of business finances, including everything from financial reporting to control and budgeting, as well as human resources and all administrative functions. As CFO, he successfully lead Kazeon, the leading software platform for intelligently electronic discovery, through their acquisition by EMC (NYSE: EMC). Before, as President of Current Networks, he built this communications company from start-up to acquisition. Fred holds MS and BS degrees in Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
Thomas Uhl
VP Business Development EMEA. Tom brings his amazing network and open-source acumen into the company. He's is Co-founder of Topalis, a pan-European technology consulting and services company, Co-founder of LiSoG, Europe's largest open-source software ecosystem hub, a board member at Grau Data, the leading European data archive solution. He initiated a number of open-source projects, including OpenMapi.org, an MS Exchange compatible open groupware platform. Tom holds MS and BS degrees in Medical C.S. from the University of Heidelberg, has written two Linux books that have been published worldwide, and he is one of Germany's leading authorities on open-source software.
Company Milestones
2011
Scale. More licensees, and rapid ecosystem expansion with companies including Brocade, Cisco, Equinix, Fusion-IO, QLogic, IBM (e.g., Linux Technology Center), Intel, SuSe, Mellanox, VMware, etc., and industry alliances including with Deutsche Wolke, LiSog, Open Cloud Initiative, Open Virtualization Alliance. Presence at a number of industry events, including CeBit 2011, sponsoring the 10th HLRS Workshop, Interop 2011, ISC'11, etc.
Standard Unified Target. Inclusion of the Unified Target in the Linux kernel and Standard Base (LSB) as the new standard multiprotocol block storage engine.
Sony PS/3
Serving DVDs and CDs from hard disk as a media jukebox.
2010
International expansion. Setup of a European office in Stuttgart, Germany, presence at CeBIT 2010 with a 36TB 10 Gb/s HA IP Storage array, and release of the RTS OS live storage distribution. More customers and partners, including: QNAP, Limelight, Schwäbisch Hall, OpenFiler.
Unified Target. Expansion of the iSCSI Target with the most prevalent storage fabrics, including Fibre Channel, FCoE, InfiniBand/SRP and high-performance virtualization, etc.
2009
Ship. More licensees, and ecosystem expansion with partners and customers including Boston Server & Storage, SuperMicro and Empalis. 10 GbE line-speed throughput achieved in virtualized environments from single KVM guests, together with Neterion and Red Hat.
Apple Macintosh
Editing commercial movies on RTS storage.
2008
Seed. Data Domain (acquired by EMC), Netgear and Pelco license the RTS iSCSI Target.
Open-source release. Release of the Linux iSCSI Target as open-source software. Additional support for a number of hardware platforms, such as Internet tablets, game stations, routers, digital cameras, cell phones (including iSCSI over cellular networks), etc.
Demos. Technology demo of H.264 and VC/1 HD video over iSCSI from a Sony PS3.
