Corelight reports strong growth in 2017, listed as a. Stealthy startup at root of riverbed brain drain network. It was founded in the year of 2002 by two men who went by the names of jerry kennelly and dr. Partners and riverbed technology cofounder dr steve mccanne.
Why does an application that works just fine over a lan come to a grinding halt across the widearea network. Cofounder steve mccanne is also leaving to pursue important charitable activities at the intersection of medical. Mcbee brings more than 30 years of experience holding top leadership roles driving market expansion, revenue growth and operations excellence at a range of technology companies. The tcpdump project in turn is also supplemented with the winpcap effort for windows, which was started by loris degioanni, who was also at cace and. The growth is attributed to increasing demand for its enterprise solution built on battlehardened open source software. But i think its a very good thing for riverbed, it gives us an opportunity to reset our strategy for the next ten years.
Steve has founded several startups including riverbed technology, which he. Three leading innovators in this field steve mccanne, cocreator of tcpdump, loris degioanni, creator of winpcap, and gerald combs, creator of wireshark software continue the advancement of riverbed applicationaware network performance management npm solutions that todays leading enterprise and government organizations rely upon. Built for people who are constantly looking for clues into what their companys software is actually doing, jut is an analytics platform designed to bring together all of a users metrics, log and event data in a single place. Jerry kennelly, former ceo, and steve mccanne, former cto, founded a technology company in may, 2002, originally named nbt next big thing technology. Riverbed understands packet capture and analysis better than any other company. Steve mccanne serves as board member at corelight and previously cofounded jut and served as. It was renamed in 2004 to reflect former cto steve mccannes hobby of fly. He has a phd in computer science from uc berkeley, worked as a staff scientist at lbnl and was an assistant professor of computer science at uc berkeley. Steve mccanne, the cto of riverbed is the cocreator of the tcpdump command line packet analyzer. Steve mccanne, a visionary recently identified by m. Spearheaded by steve mccanne, a former professor of computer science at uc berkeley, they had a powerful idea, a history together, and they were nice guys to boot. Its products consist of software and hardware focused on network performance monitoring, application performance management, and wide area networks wans, including sdwan and wan optimization. Steve mccanne, chief technology officer at riverbed, said, riverbed was founded with a vision to create integrated and intelligent solutions to the networking, application, and storage issues.
Riverbed ceo likely to list the company again in 2 to 3. Jut launches its operations data hub for devops in open. Mccanne is the company cto and executive vp who held cto positions in other companies before cofounding riverbed. It is backed by accel partners, lightspeed venture partners and wing. Steven mccanne s research while affiliated with riverbed technology and other places. Network management and wan optimization vendor riverbed technologies has had a pretty successful year, in some respects the company finalized a billiondollar acquisition of opnet technologies. Steve has founded several startups including riverbed technology, which he took public after 4 years and grew it to over 2000 employees. Steve mccanne had already proven himself to be a gifted inventor and entrepreneur at fastforward networks, which was acquired by inktomi in 2000. Read more about our wan accelerators promise strong roi on business standard. As riverbed grew they came back to us again and again for more work. Steven mccanne, cofounder at riverbed technology inc.
Steven mccanne is cofounder at riverbed technology inc. Conducted research and developed software in the labs network research group. Our founder steve mccanne created pcap and bpf, and coauthored tcpdump in the early 1990s. Apr 25, 2005 riverbed technology, the pioneer in wide area application acceleration, was founded in 2002 by jerry m. Steve mccanne serves as board member at corelight and previously co founded jut and served as. Steve mccanne has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. Riverbed adds vp of channel sales to executive team. View steven mccannes profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. At that time, he was office mates with vern paxson, the creator of zeek, who used pcap as the foundation for zeek. Van was working on the tcpip stack and needed a reliable way to capture and efficiently analyze enormous amounts of network traffic. Application proliferation, among other it trends, is changing how riverbed technology is architecting its wan optimization products, and more specifically, riverbed rios.
Brim, our desktop application built with electron and react zq, our suite of command line tools and servers, written in go. Steve mccanne s job at riverbed technology is about three things. He is also cofounder of riverbed technology and has served as chief technology officer, board. Riverbed advances open source network analysis with wireshark. We dont view wireshark as a corporate asset, its the communitys asset, steve mccanne, the cto of riverbed told. It was founded by jerry kennelly and steve mccanne, as nbt next big thing technology on may 23 of 2002. Riverbed technology central illinois business magazine. Jerry kennelly, former ceo, and steve mccanne, former cto, founded a technology company in. We did come out two years ago with a reducedfootprint, software only version of our product we call steelhead mobile that fits on laptops and turns the laptops of travelling knowledge workers. Steve mccanne works as the software developer at looky. It took the current name riverbed technology in 2003.
What do the creator of tcpdump, the creator of wireshark, and the creator of winpcap have in common. Steve mccanne inventions, patents and patent applications. Steelhead devices also store traffic on hard disks so their software can perform historic searches for patterns of data that cross the network repetitively. Visit the individual steelhead product pages for the latest software and documentation. Steve mccanne, cofounder and cto of riverbed technology, explains one technology thats allowing companies to store data from remote offices in a centralized location. Our secure, open and flexible platform is comprised of bestinclass network performance management, wan optimization. The riverbed steelhead product line accelerates the transfer of data and applications between data centers, branch locations, cloud networks, and end users. Business as usual riverbed formerly next big thing was founded in 2002 by steve mccanne and jerry kennelly to manufacture hardware for the nascent wan optimization market. So, he and jerry kennelly, ceo of riverbed, set out to address those challenges, cofounding riverbed technology. These 12 of the most highly funded stealthy startups in.
Riverbed technology, the pioneer in wide area application acceleration, was founded in 2002 by jerry m. Kennelly, president and ceo, and chief technology officer dr. I know there are different types of cto, and im much more of an inventor, he explains. It was renamed in 2004 to reflect former cto steve mccanne s hobby of fly fishing, as was its wan optimization product line steelhead, a reference to a species of. Its products consist of software and hardware focused on network. Steven mccanne is former ctocofounder at riverbed technology inc. The tone and direction of the company is headed by one of the founders, jerry m. Steven mccannes research works riverbed technology, san. In addition to pioneering packet capture and analysis, they also happen to work for riverbed. San francisco california is home to this companys world headquarters. He has a phd in computer science from uc berkeley, worked as a staff scientist at lbnl and was an assistant professor of. My cofounder steve mccanne is this incredible, genius little. Aug 23, 2016 in 2002, jerry kennelly, then a chief finance officer, and steve mccanne, a university of california, berkeley professor with a ph. Kennelly and mccanne led internal development of the first steelhead appliances, the 500, 2000, and 5000 models, and the first steelhead shipped in april 2004 to environment canada.
You dont know jack about network performance acm queue. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the united states patent and trademark office uspto. View the profiles of professionals named steve mccann on linkedin. The riverbed network and application performance platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, accelerate and remediate the performance of any network for any application. Jul 21, 2016 riverbed ceo likely to list the company again in 2 to 3 years. After taking his company private a little over a year ago, riverbed s ceo is planning another initial public offering ipo. Jul 18, 2017 osage university partners and riverbed technology cofounder steve mccanne also participated. The two men responsible for riverbed were cofounders steve mccanne, who was the engineer and cto, and kennelly, ceo and front man for the company. Stealthy startup at root of riverbed brain drain network world. If anything, you can now say you do know jack about network performance. Steelhead is also designed to allow it to prioritize delivery of missioncritical applications. How the cloud can shake legacy tech out of agencies nextgov. Riverbed technology was born in 2002 as a company called next big thing in san francisco.
Steve mccanne was the founder and cto at riverbed technology, and prior to that the cto of inktomi acquired by yahoo. View steven mccanne s professional profile on relationship science, the database of decision makers. Dec 17, 2014 but i think its a very good thing for riverbed, it gives us an opportunity to reset our strategy for the next ten years. Steve mccanne is a successful serial entrepreneur who has focused on building technologies that optimize applications and the underlying infrastructure that supports them. Three leading innovators in this field steve mccanne, cocreator of tcpdump, loris degioanni, creator of winpcap, and gerald combs, creator of wireshark software continue the advancement of riverbed applicationaware. Our founder steve mccanne created pcap and bpf and coauthored tcpdump in the. Description of riverbed riverbed technology is a company that specializes in designing and even manufacturing wan optimization products. Osage university partners and riverbed technology cofounder steve mccanne also participated. Our wan accelerators promise strong roi business standard news. With riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, complete consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery, without fear of compromising performance. It was renamed in 2004 to reflect former cto steve mccanne s hobby of fly fishing, as was its wan optimization product line steelhead, a reference to a species of trout. Steve mccanne worked with tcpip pioneer van jacobson in 1988 during the days of arpanet. These 12 of the most highly funded stealthy startups in the. View steven mccanne s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community.
San francisco, ca riverbed technology was founded in 2002 by jerry m. Jut was founded by steve mccanne, who cofounded riverbed and fastforward networks, which was acquired by inktomi and now a part of yahoo. Steven mccanne coding ceo looky labs, inc linkedin. Jun 07, 2005 you dont know jack about network performance bandwidth is only part of the problem. Startup company jut, the operations data hub for devops founded by riverbed cofounder steve mccanne, has announced the availability of its platform in open beta. The commercial version of the software makes it easier for enterprises to deploy and scale. Jun, 2011 as a proof point, degioanni noted that combs is working full time on open source wireshark and the sharkfest event is set to have the best attendance ever. It was renamed in 2004 to reflect former cto steve mccannes hobby of fly fishing, as was its wan optimization product line steelhead, a reference to a species of trout. We are building scalable software in go and a desktop application, brim. Kennelly had been employed in the software industry before founding the company with steve mccanne. Riverbeds firework ceo, jerry kennelly, retires network world. Jun 20, 2017 steve mccanne, a legend in the world of internet protocol science, recognized that there were fundamental challenges inherent in the architecture of the data network.
Steve mccanne, a visionary who the massachusetts institute of technology recently identified as one of the top 100 young it innovators in the world. Rich mcbee was appointed president and ceo of riverbed technology in october 2019. Filling a position thats been vacant since steve mccanne announced his departure back in february, computer networking company riverbed technology unknown. He cofounded the san francisco based riverbed technology along with dr steve mccanne. Riverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. But communicating what they did required a bit too much time at the whiteboard. Steven mccanne coding ceo brim security, inc linkedin.
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