Mr. Ditzler: Actona Technologies is a storage software company whose mission is to deliver a data assurance and access infrastructure for the extended enterprise. We are a privately held company with investment from Sequoia Capital, Evergreen Partners and the Fantine Group. We have gone through two rounds of funding and are well financed for 2003. Our headquarters are in the Silicon Valley, California, with our product development team being located in Haifa, Israel; the company was originally founded in March 2000.
TWST: What opens up the opportunity for Actona?
Mr. Ditzler: The technology actually opens the opportunity. The
opportunity lies in the many islands of storage spread across
virtually every major enterprise which create data management
challenges, high costs and data assurance issues (disparate back-
up initiatives, etc.). The limitations imposed by the WAN on the
file system protocols (CIFS for windows and NFS for Unix
environments) have prevented these enterprises from taking
advantage of the efficiencies of a centralized storage
infrastructure. The Actona technology delivers LAN-like read and
write access to centralized data over the WAN. The ability to
consolidate data in the data center, yet provide high-performance
access, creates a very compelling opportunity for our customers
as well as for Actona.
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