David Matthew Howard

VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security. The company was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cloudera, Inc. engages in the provision of data management and analytics software solutions. It operates through Subscription, and Services segments. It offers data hub, data warehouse, machine learning, dataflow, and Hortonworks data platform.The company was founded by Amr A. Awadallah, Christophe Bisciglia, Michael Olson and Jeffrey Hammerbacher in June 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Docker, Inc. engages in the operation and development of a container management platform. It provides developers, architects, development operations, and information technology clients solutions for building, sharing and running modern applications. It offers Docker Enterprise and Docker Hub. The firm serves the government, higher education, financial services, insurance, and healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Solomon Hykes, Benjamin Golub, and Pahl Sebastien in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hortonworks, Inc. engages in the provision of open-source global data management solutions. Its platforms allow enterprises to manage their data on a global basis, whether it is data-in-motion or data-at-rest. It offers the Apache projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark, which individual clients can modify the source code of a particular open-source project and then commit those changes to the central repository. The company was founded by Robert Bearden, Alan F. Gates, Arun C. Murthy, Devaraj Das, Eric Baldeschwieler, Mahadev Konar, Owen O'Malley, Sanjay R. Radia, and Suresh Srinivas in April 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.