It's hard to gauge the level of Cheriton's involvement at Kealia, and he hadn't returned inquiries at press time.
There is a possibility that Kealia's been funded in part by Cisco, in a potential repeat of the company's spin-in of Andiamo a couple of years ago. In that case, Cisco helped fund Andiamo, and once its technology was underway, it bought it outright (see Cisco Buys Andiamo, Cisco Owns Up to Andiamo , and Ciscos Secret SAN Strategies Revealed).
Neither Bechtolsheim nor Cisco have acknowledged any link between Cisco and Kealia, however. Cisco's equally cagey about ties to any startup Bechtolsheim's involved with: When asked today whether Bechtolsheim's new venture was funded in any way by Cisco, for example, spokesman Larry Yu said it would be inappropriate to comment, given Cisco's promise to keep the former exec's whereabouts on the QT.
When we tried to reach Bechtolsheim at Kealia, his admin said she could take a message for him, but would be unable to answer any questions. The B-man hasn't phoned back.
There are other possibilities, of course. Bechtolsheim has always been busy in Silicon Valley, with a particular emphasis on technologies related to data management and retrieval of one kind or another. It just might be that he's opted to spread himself across more than one project.
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