Bill Blake is currently the CEO of Interactive Supercomputing Inc., the developer of the Star-P interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for simple, user-friendly parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures: SMP servers, multi-core servers, and clusters. Previously, Bill Blake was senior vice president of product development of Netezza, a high-performance data warehouse appliance company. Prior to that, Bill Blake was vice president of high performance technical computing at Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer where he led development and marketing efforts for the industry leading HPTC effort using the Alpha processor.

Additionally, Bill Blake is on the board of directors at Cray Inc., the pioneers of supercomputers, TotalView Technologies, a provider of analytical software for developing complex, computationally intensive parallel programmes, and Interactive Supercomputing. Bill Blake was a previous board member at Cluster File Systems Inc., developers of the Lustre file system (acquired by SUN). For the past four years he as served on the external research panel for Computation at Sandia National Laboratories. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

"Bill's more than 20 years of experience and perspective in the world of performance driven computing will be a key asset for Terascala", stated Larry Genovesi, CEO of Terascala. "His understanding of the user challenges and the dynamics of the industry will help Terascala significantly as our growth accelerates."

Terascala builds high throughput, scalable storage appliances leveraging parallel file systems for those people who analyse large quantities of data to make faster, more accurate decisions. Its solution delivers twice the performance at half the cost of competitive solutions with no application changes, offering existing users a better alternative while allowing new users to affordably run their applications.

"As processing technologies and disk capacities have exploded over the past decade, storage solution throughput, especially at the parallel file system level, has not kept pace", stated Bill Blake. "Terascala is attacking the right problem at the right time in the right manner with an easy to use, cost effective appliance approach that shatters the performance limitations of alternative storage solutions."

Bill Strecker is currently the CTO at Interactive Supercomputing, a developer of high performance mathematical simulation software, and a partner at Flagship Ventures. Previously he served as Senior Vice President, Technology & Corporate Development and CTO of Compaq Computer Corp. Before that, Bill Strecker was with Digital Equipment Corporation for 28 years in various executive and senior technical positions, most recently as SVP Corporate Strategy & Technology and CTO. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) W. Wallace McDowell Award for outstanding contributions to the Computer Art.

"Bill's extensive experience and understanding of how performance technologies continue to drive the computer industry will be a great benefit for Terascala", stated Larry Genovesi, CEO of Terascala. "His unique perspective on user requirements, next generation technologies, and the dynamics of the computer industry are extremely helpful to Terascala as we continue to expand our footprint in the market."

"Server performance and storage capacity have expanded exponentially over the past decades, but storage throughput has not kept pace, in terms of performance and price/performance", stated Bill Strecker. "As more application areas, such as virtualization, analysis, and data mining, leverage higher numbers of compute servers to accomplish their tasks, a storage solution that can deliver data quickly is becoming a necessity. Terascala is delivering a unique solution to solve this problem."