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I wanted to take a second to introduce the Zetta founding team to you— here’s a bit of flavor about who is behind Zetta and why they decided to build this company. The Zetta team represents a unique combination of petabyte-scale storage administration experience and expertise combined with world-class distributed computing technology experts.
The Zetta founding team is comprised of four individuals who all have a deep background in operating storage infrastructures, and an even deeper background in leveraging distributed computing principles to solve business problems in new ways:
Jeff Treuhaft, is our CEO. Prior to this, JT was at VeriSign, where he was GM of the global digital content and messaging business unit— a $135M business unit of VeriSign. Prior to VeriSign, he was one of the first employees at Netscape (a founding technology product manager), and worked on standardizing SSL, launching JavaScript, RSS, and syndicated identity management, and managing the W3C and IETF relationships.
Jeff Whitehead is our CTO and leads Operations. Most recently, JW was CIO of Shutterfly, leading the IT and production operations staff as online storage grew from less than one petabyte to more than six petabytes. Despite this breathtaking growth, his team improved availability from less than 99% to more than 99.99%. Prior to Shutterfly, JW was co-founder of Memory Matrix and led all technical operations, and Director of Operations for Shopping.com, Dealtime, Epinions, and Netscape.
Lou Montulli, runs engineering at Zetta. Lou started his development career while at the University of Kansas, where he authored the Lynx web browser. A founding engineer of Netscape, Lou pioneered many of the early Web innovations, including HTTP cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, and encouraging the implementation of animated GIFs into the browser. Most recently VP of Engineering at Shutterfly, Lou was also co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix. Interestingly, Lou also gained a certain infamy for this.
Jason Harrison was most recently lead engineer at Shutterfly and veteran of Seascape where he led delivery of the first software application certified by Lloyd’s Register for international naval navigation. Jason was also co-founder of Memory Matrix.
These founders developed the Zetta business plan after they experienced the day-to-day difficulties associated with management of large-scale commercial storage deployments. As the data under their management grew quickly into the petabytes, it became very clear to them that existing storage solutions weren’t designed to support the kind of scale that data footprints were rapidly approaching, and it also became clear that purchasing, integrating and managing new failure-prone storage can be an extremely time-, resource- and labor-intensive exercise that rarely satisfied their goals.
With a proven track record for success as a part of some of Silicon Valley’s most inventive, successful and entrepreneurial companies, Zetta’s founders knew that they could best-solve this problem and change the way that data storage is purchased, managed and supported.
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