RisingTide was founded by an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs to redefine IP storage based on a comprehensive, proven open-source storage software stack.
See the rising tide. Multiple strategic inflections points in the computer industry are confluencing to drive profound change in data storage: Linux is becoming a viable storage operating system, the performance and economics of 10 GbE SANs are eclipsing FibreChannel SANs, and the proliferation of virtualization and cloud computing are driving a new quality of high-density yet highly-scalable dynamic computing that demands "infinite" inexpensive IP Storage.
About Us
History
RisingTide was founded to develop a complete IP storage solution, based on the LIO multiprotocol target that has been maturing for almost half a decade as open-source software.
Partners
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| Contributed the FCoE fabric module. | Contributing an FC HBA fabric module. |
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| The leader in 10 GbE switches. | The leading Linux high-availability solution. |
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| The leader in 10 GbE network adapters. | Our storage systems VAR in Europe. |
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| Contributing an FC HBA fabric module. | 10 Gb/s storage for KVM guests with RisingTide. |
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| Highly innovative PC systems vendor. | One of our supported software partners. |
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| Our systems integrator in Europe. |
Customers
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| Self-managing DroboElite powered by RisingTide. | Dedup appliances based on RisingTide. |
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| Next-gen infrastructure with RisingTide storage. | ReadyNAS appliances powered by RisingTide. |
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| Based on RisingTide storage engine. | Endura IP Video Security based on RisingTide. |
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| TS-x59 appliances powered by RisingTide. | 1,500 year city archive powered by RisingTide storage. |
Leadership Team
Marc Fleischmann
CEO. Marc brings business and systems leadership to the team. Before co-founding RisingTide, he helped building a number of companies and non-profits in various roles, including Innotek, Europe's leading software virtualization company, acquired by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), and LiSoG, Europe's largest open-source software ecosystem hub. 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 the University of Karlsruhe, 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 RisingTide, 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 also the principal author of the Linux open-source iSCSI target LIO. In his precious spare-time, Nic enjoys proliferating our IP storage engine 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.
Christian Blank
VP Sales EMEA. Christian brings sales leadership to the team. As VP Sales & Marketing at Labtec, he drove their worldwide OEM deals, closing partners like HP, IBM, Integraph, Dell, Unigraphics, Solid Works and Dassault Systems. As VP Sales & Marketing at SpaceTek IMC, a leading manufacturer of 3D input devices (used e.g., on NASA's Mars Rover mission), he built their EMEA presence from ground up, through their merger with Labtec in 1999. Before, under his sales leadership, MCG grew into the top European VAR for Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s. Conveniently, Christian seems to know just about every CIO in Europe, and in his spare time, he thoroughly enjoys preparing amazing dinners for his friends.
History
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 launch of the RisingTide IP Storage distribution. More customers and partners, including: QNAP, Limelight, Schwäbisch Hall, OpenFiler.
2009
Scale & more speed records. More licensees, expansion of the partner and distributor ecosystem, including SuperMicro, CPI Server & Storage and Topalis. 10 GbE line-speed achieved in virtualized environments from KVM guests, together with Neterion and Redhat.
2008
Commercial launch. Data Domain (acquired by EMC), Netgear and Pelco license the RisingTide iSCSI target.
2007
Platform expansion & first licensees. Commercial licenses for LSI and OnStor. Technology demo of H.264 and VC/1 HD video over iSCSI from a Sony PS/3.
Apple Macintosh
Editing commercial movies on RisingTide IP Storage.
2006
Open-source release. Release of the iSCSI target as open-source software LIO. Additional support for a number of CE platforms, such as the Nokia Internet Tablet, digital cameras and cell phones.
2005
First speed records. First 10 Gb/s line-speed achieved in native environment, together with Neterion and Force10. The RisingTide iSCSI target and iSCSI initiator form the first iSCSI software stack that outperforms iSCSI offload engines. Release of the open-source iSCSI initiator.
2004
R&D. Started development of an iSCSI target and iSCSI initiator.
