Mike Young

Current

• CEO at Cachengo, Inc.

Past

• CEO at Sullego, Inc.
• CTO, Appliance Business Unit at Xyratex
• CTO at Adaptec, Inc. / Snap Appliance, Inc.

• CTO at Snap Appliance
• Chief Evangelist at VA Software
• Chief Evangelist at VA Research / VA Linux Systems / VA Software
• CTO/COO at NetAttach,Inc.
• Sr. Director of Technology at Adaptec
• Product Manager at Storage Dimensions
• Product Manager at Mylex

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Education

• Jacksonville University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Mike

Connections

239 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Mike Young’s Summary

Have extensive experience in the storage industry and in various capacities, e.g., marketing, engineering, operations and sales.

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to pioneer in the following areas:

1. Clustered RAID
2. Distributed RAID management
3. Industry's first Linux-based NAS
4. Converged block and file
5. Developed an appliance as a platform, which was adopted by numerous OEMs

More recently, I've developed a new caching filesystem, which makes up for the performance losses associated with parity-based RAID, can allow SATA drives to outperform the use of SAS, DRAM and SSDs in storage systems, and doesn't degrade write performance due to fragmentation as the filesystem fills up.

Have developed some new SaaS capabilities to provide a secure, scalable, distributed/federated storage pool that doesn't result in rising OPEX as demand increases.

Developed new backup capabilities that provide the following:

1. Allows local network speeds for backup and is faster than deploying a multi-drive appliance in the home or small office
2. Allows the use of a small, hard-drive sized appliance as a gateway to an unlimited backup pool, which corrects the current backup problem of having to deploy more backup storage than the data being backed up
3. Full block-based ILM that keeps most recent or frequently accessed data on local filesystem and aged/archived data on slower/Cloud storage
4. Is more secure than file or filesystem-based encryption
5. Is 99.99999% (seven nines) reliable

And I've been busy optimizing server virtualization so that virtualized Guest operating systems and their applications can outperform deployment on native hardware.

I routinely consult in various areas, am currently nurturing my baby, Sullego, and have two more companies in the crock pot.

That's about it. For now.

Mike Young’s Specialties:

Software development, rapid prototyping of software and hardware, hardware layout and design, product marketing, logistics, negotiations, manufacturing, and I'm sure more

Mike Young’s Experience

• CEO

  Cachengo, Inc.

  (Computer Networking industry)

  June 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Cachengo is a storage company that's bringing low-cost, tiered storage to the SMB market. Cachengo's products converge file-services, disk-to-disk backup, online backup and near-CDP into a single product that's highly scalable and ultra easy to use.

• CEO

  Sullego, Inc.

  (Computer Networking industry)

  December 2006 — March 2009 (2 years 4 months)

  Sullego produces revolutionary network storage solutions that dramatically raise the bar for performance, low price and value add features.

• CTO, Appliance Business Unit

  Xyratex

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; XRTX; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  Came via acquisition of NetHelix where I was CEO/CTO.

• CTO

  Adaptec, Inc. / Snap Appliance, Inc.

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

• CTO

  Snap Appliance

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 10 months)

• Chief Evangelist

  VA Software

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 8 months)

  Came via acquisition of NetAttach where I was Founder and COO.

• Chief Evangelist

  VA Research / VA Linux Systems / VA Software

  (Computer Networking industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• CTO/COO

  NetAttach,Inc.

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

• Sr. Director of Technology

  Adaptec

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADPT; Computer Hardware industry)

  July 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  My first time at Adaptec, I was responsible for IDIOM, the distributed management software. My second time I was CTO for the storage appliances.

• Product Manager

  Storage Dimensions

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

• Product Manager

  Mylex

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Mike Young’s Education

• Jacksonville University

  1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Mike Young’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Mike Young’s Interests:

Linux, Open Source, New Programming Languages, Road Cycling, Mt. Biking, Theology

Mike Young’s Groups:

•    Adaptec Alumni
•    Cloud Computing
•    Storage: SAN, NAS
•    The Storage Group
•    Storage Monkeys
•    Cachengo

Mike Young’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch