Michael Rowan

Current

• Founder/CTO at Viridity Software

Past

• Consultant at Incipient
• Consultant at Symantec
• CTO and Founder at Revivio

• Founder and CTO at StorageCom
• Partner at Castlerock Consulting Group
• Architect at MangoSoft
• Partner, Chief Architect at CLAM Associates
• Unix Group System Programmer at Purdue University

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Education

• Purdue University
• Saugerties

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Industry

Computer Software

Michael Rowan’s Summary

Software executive with a long history of creating and operating businesses in the high availability and storage sectors. I am currently consulting for Incipient, prior to that I was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies, then Mendocino Software), and a parter at CLaM Associates (acquired by Lakeview Technologies).

StorageCom and Revivo were the pioneers of the Continuous Data Protection space. Cool stuff.

Michael Rowan’s Specialties:

Archtecture and development of storage software and hardware systems, fault tolerant systems, clustering, product and company creation, venture financing, technical sales and business development.

Michael Rowan’s Experience

• Founder/CTO

  Viridity Software

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Optimizing the data center for power consumption.

• Consultant

  Incipient

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

  March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year)

• Consultant

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)

  Working on integration of Revivio post acquisition

• CTO and Founder

  Revivio

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

  September 2001 — November 2006 (5 years 3 months)

  Founder, CTO

• Founder and CTO

  StorageCom

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  Created the RealTime product. IP was sold into Vyant Technologies, which was then acquired by Mendocino Software.

• Partner

  Castlerock Consulting Group

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

• Architect

  MangoSoft

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

• Partner, Chief Architect

  CLAM Associates

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

  June 1990 — August 1997 (7 years 3 months)

  CLAM was responsible for IBM's HACMP, HAGEO/GEO-DR, LVM-CA (concurrent access logical volume manager), Clariion's ATF, Concurrent Ingres and a host of other high availbility products.

• Unix Group System Programmer

  Purdue University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years)

Michael Rowan’s Education

• Purdue University

  Computer Science September 1986 — December 1999

• Saugerties

Additional Information

Michael Rowan’s Interests:

Skydiving, Kiteboarding, Surfing, Snow kiting, skiing...

Michael Rowan’s Groups:

SNIA, IEEE

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Green Group
•    Green
•    Storage Specialists

Michael Rowan’s Honors:

Boston Business Journal's 40 under 40 in 2004, New England Business and Technology Award, Storage Magazine's Top 5 CTO's of Storage, Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies (CLAM Associates)

Issued patents
7,272,666 - Storage Management Device
7,287,133 - Systems and methods for providing a modification history for a location within a data store

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