This all starts to smell a bit like the headstrong hype of a hungry young company.
First of all, it's not like Radiant Data is alone in addressing this market. Indeed, EMC has already licensed similar software from Signiant Corp., which EMC is rebranding as OnCourse, which is able to replicate data across multiple platforms (see Signiant Wins EMC's Love).
Other startups delivering ways to keep data stores consistent across multiple geographical sites in various ways include Actona Technologies Inc., DiskSites Inc., NetEx, Scale8 Inc., Storigen Systems Inc., and Tacit Networks (see EMC Eyes File-Caching Startups, Startups Take It to the Edge, Storigen Ships Cache of Many Colors, and Scale Eight Smells the Software).
And why did Bradley decide to leave Radiant Data -- a company he founded and one that owns the rights to his purportedly patent-pending technology -- in June 2002? "Funding was kind of tight," he says now. "CA had been looking at Radiant and considering a possible business deal there, and they said, 'We need you or someone like you,' so I said, 'It's probably right to do this.' " Before starting Radiant Data, Bradley held various engineering and management positions at Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT) and Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) (NYSE: SGI). "I was employee No. 18 at SGI," Bradley boasts. [Ed. note: Wow, man, you're practically Bill Gates.]
Karim, before he started PeakData last year, was president and COO of Front Porch Digital Inc., a content management software company that was spun off from StorageTek. Previously, he worked for StorageTek in marketing, business development, and sales positions in the U.S. and Europe.
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