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F5 Networks was founded in Seattle in 1996 by Jeffrey Hussey and other networking entrepreneurs during the rapid commercial growth of the web. Its early BIG-IP products distributed incoming traffic across multiple servers so websites could remain responsive and available as demand changed.
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Lite-On Technology was founded in Taiwan in 1975 and became one of the country’s early manufacturers of light-emitting diode products. The company expanded from optoelectronics into power supplies and electronic components as Taiwan’s computer industry grew.
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Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh founded Nutanix in 2009 after working in large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. They set out to combine computing and storage in clusters of standard servers, reducing dependence on separate storage-area-network appliances.
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Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket founded Samsara in 2015 after previously founding Meraki, the cloud-managed networking company acquired by Cisco. They wanted to apply sensors, cloud software and connected hardware to trucks, industrial equipment and physical operations rather than office IT.
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Naver was founded in South Korea in 1999 by former Samsung SDS employees led by Lee Hae-jin. The company developed a Korean-language search and portal service tailored to local internet users.
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Rubrik was founded in 2014 by Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Soham Mazumdar and Arvind Jain. The company set out to simplify enterprise backup and recovery by combining software and scale-out infrastructure rather than relying on complex legacy backup architectures.
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Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest founded Okta in 2009 after working at Salesforce and recognising that companies were adopting more cloud applications than traditional identity systems could manage easily. The company created a cloud service for single sign-on and user management across many software providers.
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Charles Liang and Sara Liu founded Super Micro Computer in Silicon Valley in 1993. The company built motherboards, chassis and server components designed to let customers assemble systems quickly around new processor generations.
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DCI Indonesia was established in 2011 by Indonesian technology and infrastructure entrepreneurs including Otto Toto Sugiri, with a focus on carrier-neutral data-centre services. The company set out to provide highly available local infrastructure as Indonesian businesses, banks and internet companies increased their dependence on digital systems.
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Jay Chaudhry founded Zscaler in 2007 after building and selling several earlier cybersecurity companies. He argued that security appliances placed inside corporate networks would become less effective as employees, applications and data moved directly to the internet and cloud.
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