Start-Up’s Profile: JDV Solutions

Company:
JDV Solutions, Inc.
(named after Joey, the family dog, Joe Dog Ventures was born)

Headquarters:
Westminster, CO

Born in:
2008 when JDV LLC started and then reincorporated as JDV Solutions, Inc. in 2009.

Background:
A spin-off from Interact-TV, Inc. in home entertainment media servers. JDV purchased the IP for media/storage management from Interact-TV to focus on the enterprise SSD storage market.

Financial Funding:
None. Once the DataPool product will be in the market, the company expects to look for additional funding.

Revenues and Profitability:
Revenues of $325,000 in 2009; currently profitable. Sales come from other developed products such as an LTO-4 and LTO-5 tape archival solution, a D2D2T solution branded by third party companies, JDV acting as the developer and contract manufacturer.

Main Executive:
Ken Fuhrman, founder, president and CEO, has over 30 years of experience designing software and hardware for video and storage systems for the broadcast and post-production markets, as well as developing home entertainment storage systems for the CE market. He was also the founder and CEO of Interact-TV from 2000-2009. Prior to that, Fuhrman was the founder and chairman of Evolving Video Technologies (EVT), sold to RT-SET (now VizRT) in 1999 that went public five months later. At RT-SET, he became director of broadcast graphics. Prior to EVT, he held project management and senior development positions at Ampex and American Television Communications. Fuhrman has numerous patents in graphics/video technology and has authored papers on programming and design. He has significant experience in video compression, software for broadcast television and graphics production, and high performance storage systems.

≠ of Employees:
8

Technology and Product:
Last April JDV launched its DataPool SSD enterprise storage server featuring Intel Xeon processor and designed around JDV’s HPC SSDs. Starting at $9,900, the server is configurable with up to 2TB of storage in a single 1U chassis containing 8 hot swap 2.5-inch SSDs in JBOD or RAID-10 with LSI MegaRAID controller, as well as one removable 3Gb SATA HDD bay. The company said it maintains "high IOPs with greater than 500MB/s sustained data rates." With Dual GbE controller, it can be use in either a SAN/iSCSI or NAS configuration. Among the functionalities: snapshot support for online backup, dynamic volume manager, web-based management, clustering.

 DataPool 1U rack with 8 SSDs and one HDD

Roadmap:
DataPool will ship from June 21, 2010; 10GbE option coming; SSD expansion unit (up to 6TB) by September 2010; small form factor 2TB SAS SSD system for video editing.

Distributors and OEMs:
The start-up works with OEMs in Taiwan and is looking for distribution/channel partners.

≠  of Customers:
None for DataPool; 200 customers or OEMs for its LTO solution.

Market:
High performance storage applications, database, web serving, video streaming.