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History
Located near the heart of Silicon Valley, Protium Computing was founded in fall 2005 by Philip Kufeldt and Andy Wilcox. As experienced designers of enterprise class products and solutions for many years, they grew frustrated watching friends, family, and others struggle with poorly designed consumer electronic products. So they decided to do something about it. Protium Computing was created with the vision of making low cost, easy to use, powerful, and environmentally friendly computing products that don't require the skills of an IT professional to configure, or a PhD in computer science to operate.
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Philip A. Kufeldt - Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Kufeldt began his career at IBM where he did operating system development for the Power PC. He moved to VERITAS Software in early 1994. During his first 2 years at VERITAS, Mr. Kufeldt participated in the development of clustered storage management environments, high availability systems, and storage area network protocols. Then in 1996 he started VERITAS' consulting organization. Mr. Kufeldt was Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman for Integratus. Based upon experience at VERITAS Software, he saw a need for simplified storage management and high availability software. Integratus brought to market in January 2000 the first wide-area failover product for the Solaris platform, as well as 5 other storage management products. At its peak, Integratus had 30 employees including software engineers, support engineers, sales representatives, professional services engineers, finance and administrative personnel; over 20 resellers; partnerships with VERITAS Software, EMC and Network Appliance; raised $3.3M in investment capital and generated over $9M in revenue.