History 2004: Profile of Start-Up Mendocino Software

Name:
Mendocino Software

Founded in:
2003

Location:
Fremont, CA

Web:
mendocinosoft.com

CEO:
Peter Levine

Financial funding:
$15 million

Product:
Continuous backup software

Competitors include:
eVault, lntraDyn, NSI Software, Revivio, Storactive, StorageTek, Time Spring, Unitrends, XOsoft

Comments:
Continuous backup technology capable of analyzing changes at the block-level has enormous appeal, and no doubt enormous potential, since it’s the only system that will permit full point-of-time recovery. The firm’s management team is full of Veritas alums. VC capitalist Peter Levine, the new CEO of Mendocino replacing Prashant Dholakia, was executive VP for strategic platform operations at the software giant. President and COO Steven Colman was VP of WW OEM and strategic alliances, and CTO Jeff Rothschild was a co-founder of Veritas. There’s also VP of product operations Chris Eidler, who was Nishan’s CTO. What’s slightly worrying, however, is that the software product, known as RealTime, was acquired from Vyant Technologies, a start-up that has since folded.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 196 on May 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.

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