Dr Donald Basile Profile
| Dr Donald Basile Job Title: CEO Company Name: Violin Memory 25 years in the Data Center and Internet Space Focus on commercializing innovation for wide scale use. 1986 – Internet usage began AT&T Bell Labs 1986-1989 – AT&T Developed commercially available IP and data packet and optical communications equipment. 1987- 1993 – Stanford University, MS advanced computer architecture, Ph.D. distributed computing. World Wide Web 1992/93 on its initial release. 1990-1992 – IBM, developed first commercial Internet Shopping Mall prototype as Internet commercialization is allowed for first time 1993-1997 – TCI/LCI/Comcast Digital technologies for television advertising, satellite distribution, video on demand. 1996, early Internet advertising software company 4 1997-1998 – Early Internet Infrastructure company providing backend cloud services to Amazon, Ebay, Excite, Lycos…. 1998-1999 - One of first handful of B2B companies based on web services and XML and EDI 2000 – 2004 – Backed 30+ companies in data center equipment space as part of Cisco back venture accelerator 2006-2010 – Solid State Storage and Memory Arrays Invested and worked in over 40 start-ups and 4 major companies: IBM, AT&T, Comcast(LCI) and United Health Group |