Before heading up Inrange, Grodhaus -- who says he's in his "early 50s" -- was CEO of IPL Systems Inc., a storage systems vendor now part of nStor Technologies Inc. (Amex: NSO); senior VP and chief marketing officer for Fujitsu Ltd. (OTC: FJTSY); and VP and general manager of midrange and large storage businesses at Memorex Telex, which is now part of Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS). He received a business degree from Southern Methodist University in 1973.
John Webster, founder of Data Mobility Group, says Grodhaus should help Tacit -- which he says has a strong technology team already -- take the next step in coming to market. "Greg has been in the industry for years," says Webster. "He's a well-traveled man, and he knows the landscape."
Tacit, based in South Plainfield, N.J., has fewer than 30 employees. Grodhaus says, "We're scaling the company upward while minding our expenses." The company received $7.3 million in first-round funding last fall, which he says will take Tacit into mid-2004 (see Tacit Makes Funding Explicit).
Obviously, Tacit isn't alone here: Startups also hunting customers in this space include Actona Technologies Inc., DiskSites Inc., NBT Technology Inc., Radiant Data Corp., and Storigen Systems Inc. (see Radiant Data Goes It Alone, Is NBT the Inktomi of Storage?, EMC Eyes File-Caching Startups).
But Williams says Tacit stands out from the pack because it's focused on high-scale enterprise sites -- and has the performance to play in that segment. "Do you want to be in small workgroups and scale to enterprise users? It's difficult to do both at the same time."
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