Welcome to 4Blox

Management

Dan Munro – CEO/President

Mr. Munro brings over 25 years of senior technology business experience to 4Blox™ . Dan was most recently a private practice consultant working with early stage software ventures nationally to accelerate growth and/or acquisition. He helped to accelerate the successful exit of multiple ventures including an ISV in the healthcare vertical that was acquired by WebMD for $65M (April, 2004).

Prior to that, Mr. Munro was the Vice President of Business Development for Aerocast – a joint venture incubated by Motorola and Liberty Media and Soros Fund Management ($24M Series A). At Aerocast, Mr. Munro was instrumental in securing the companies first – and only recurring revenue through a custom technology Licensing Agreement with LimeLight Networks (LLNW).

Dan started his career as a software engineer at SAIC where he worked on the first commercial release of DFDSS on AIX for IBM. DFDSS was the de-facto software standard for both tape and disk data management on IBM mainframe computers. He then worked on a full datacenter migration from St. Louis, MO to Woodland Hills, CA for Foodmaker, Inc – which had just completed an LBO from Ralston Purina – prior to completing its own successful IPO.

Mr. Munro has Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Communications from the University of Redlands.

Sai Narasimhamurthy, PhD – CTO and Co-Founder

Sai co-founded 4Blox™ at the end of his doctoral work at Arizona State University.

During the course of his research work at Arizona State University, Sai has worked on iSCSI protocol performance issues from the early days of iSCSI (2001) and has been looking into iSCSI performance with TCP/IP at very high speeds. Sai also worked with alternative technologies implementing Storage over Ethernet in 2002. His dissertation (2005) deals with a software architecture to improve the performance of existing iSCSI SANs, and also deals with issues of implementing alternate low overhead, reliable transport protocols for future storage networks.

Sai worked with Intel Research and Development and was a contributing participant in the early stages of the RDMA Consortium (formed by IBM, Cisco and Intel) to foster and promote new optimization techniques specifically for IP Storage and the emerging 10GbE architecture. Sai worked on the software design and implementation for one of first software prototypes of the iWARP suite of protocols in 2002. iWARP/RDMA is now one of the best known techniques to optimize end systems based on TCP/IP. RDMA is also used for infiniband.

Earlier in his career he consulted for Nortel Networks through Wipro Technologies, India. He worked with the verification and regression team for Nortel's SONET products (OC-12, OC-48, OC-192). He was the technical prime for product regression for one of Nortel's Optera (OC-192) line of products – The Optera Connect LH.

He is also a published author in leading journals and conferences on topics related to storage optimization. Sai received both his Masters and PhD in the field of IP Storage Optimization from Arizona State University and a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University, India.