RisingTide Systems, a Storage Start-Up in Stealth Mode

Headquartered in San Ramon, CA, with an office in Stuttgart, Germany, start-up RisingTide Systems was founded in 2008 by its CEO Marc Fleischmann.

He is mainly known in storage as member of the technical staff at HP Laboratories, where he worked on distributed OS, network protocols and NAS. He also was at the board of Clarmon Corp. and Innotek, a virtualization company acquired by Sun. Fleischmann also works for Pixelworks as senior VP engineering and Transmeta as senior director software. Prior to HP, he built IMF, a PC systems company in Stuttgart, Germany, acquired by Atos Origin. He grew up in Stuttgart, Germany and holds a masters degree in business and engineering from University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

We just learned about RisingTide that the company:

• is a provider of IP open source storage software
• has a partnership with Neterion to get 10GbE adapters and bring virtual IP storage solutions for I/O intensive applications to the market, enabling Red Hat’s Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) to deliver measured >8 Gb/s throughput from KVM guests running RisingTide’s iSCSI initiator and target, and
• is also a technology partner of Openfiler, a network storage OS fronted by a web-based management user interface

There is currently nothing on its Web site.