Brett Miller Field CTO, Formulus Black

Formulus Black Corp. hired seasoned senior technology executive Brett Miller as its field CTO, tasked with helping to further advance the company’s next-gen persistent in-memory computing solutions.

He reports to COO Jing Xie.

He has experience spearheading implementation and support of mission-critical programs that support Fortune 100 clients. He comes into the company after serving as senior solutions architect, MemVerge, a provider of Intel Optane-focused solutions. Prior to that, he was the field CTO and solutions architect, Violin Systems, in AFAs. Other senior technical executive experience includes divisional CIO at UBS Investment Bank and operations manager at SKADDEN, ARPS. He serves as a strategy advisor for me:now and was an advisory board member for Aicumen Technologies Inc. for the past 5 years.

He is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

“This is the right opportunity at the right time for the right company,” he said. “Formulus Black is perfectly positioned to change the storage game and I’m looking forward to contributing to the company’s success. In my experience, customers are looking for any performance gain they can get and FORSA is a solution that addresses this need by providing in-memory performance of any workload while reducing cost and complexity. I’m excited about joining this great team.”

FORSA software utilizes server memory and data management capabilities to improve processing speed, increase effective memory capacity, and protect vs. data loss. With it, large database and analytics workloads can persist and run in memory on commodity server hardware with no changes to the application.

“Brett has the acumen and background developing best-in-class technical solutions that help solve real-world problems and we are glad that he has decided to join Formulus Black,” said Xie. “We are eager to introduce his perspective and approach to furthering the goals we have set out in launching FORSA. Brett will be an instrumental contributor to the Formulus Black family, as we look to better optimize customers’ performance, data security and cost model.”