We were pleased to receive word this week that SiliconIndia Magazine named Ocarina Networks one of its Top 10 Networking Companies, and one of its Top 100 Companies for 2009. The publication’s annual “si100″ is a listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. According to the magazine, the winners were chosen by a panel of leading Indian CEO’s & CIO’s of public companies, VC’s, analysts, founders of other VC funded companies, along with the SiliconIndia editorial board.
What is particularly gratifying about this is that we didn’t know it was coming. We have no particular connection to or involvement with this publication–which to me means we were chosen on our own merit. A look at the other winners shows that we’re among some very innovative Valley companies, such as FatPipe Networks, which uses router clustering to enable faster Internet/WAN connections, and photonics device maker Alphion, among with many others. As someone who arrived in the U.S. seeking to contribute something of worth, I feel I’m in very good company with these fellow Indian entrepreneurs who have also made their homes here.
The timing could not be better. This Friday, we’ll be hosting a group of influential bloggers for Tech Field Day, an event sponsored by an online publication, Gestalt IT. This is an opportunity for us to provide hands-on demonstrations to a group of in-the-know technologists. We’re looking forward to giving them a chance to witness, in real time, our compression and deduplication solution, the Ocarina ECOsystem. We’ve challenged them to bring us their toughest data set to see how well we do. They’ll also get a chance to see how it integrates with an number of vendors’ storage, and will be testing it out themselves in demonstrations. In all, we expect a lively and thought-provoking discussion.
