Auspex Systems Inc

Founded in 1939, Hewlett-Packard Company is one of the largest information technology firms in the world. The company operates enterprise business, personal system, and imaging and printing groups. Its range of products includes computers, workstations, servers, printers, and storage and mobile computing devices. Hewlett-Packard Company also provides infrastructure technology, business process outsourcing, application development, consulting, integration, and technology support and maintenance services. In addition, it provides information management and business intelligence solutions. The company serves individual consumers and clients in the government, health, education, and communications and media sectors. With a work force of more than 300,000 employees, Hewlett-Packard Company operates offices in over 170 countries. Its subsidiaries include Hewlett-Packard Argentina, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Company, Hewlett-Packard GmbH, Hewlett-Packard New Zealand and Hewlett-Packard Globalsoft Private Limited.

A storage industry pioneer, Western Digital Corporation offers products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company develops and manufactures hard and solid-state drives for internal, external, portable and shared storage applications. Its hard drives are used in desktop and notebook computers, mobile devices, corporate networks and home entertainment equipment. The company s solid-state drives are used in embedded applications, such as network communication products and the industrial, medical, military and aerospace markets. Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corporation s storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers through the Western Digital and WD brand names. The company employs more than 45,000 people at manufacturing facilities in the United States, Malaysia and Thailand and sales offices worldwide.

NetApp is one of the world leaders in unified storage solutions for data-intensive enterprises Since its establishment in 1992, the company has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that simplify data management. Its storage solutions include specialized hardware, software and services. In addition, NetApp provides seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments and Yahoo! utilize NetApp global data management solutions. NetApp is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.