I’ve been an entrepreneur and innovator in data center infrastructure for more than 20 years. At the first company I founded, Rainfinity, we created a file virtualization product called RainStorage. Rainfinity was subsequently acquired by EMC. While I was at EMC I founded the EMC R&D Center in China
AITech Interview with Charles Fan – Aitechpark
1.Charles, please tell us about yourself and the legacy that you’ve created.
I’ve been an entrepreneur and innovator in data center infrastructure for more than 20 years. At the first company I founded, Rainfinity, we created a file virtualization product called RainStorage. Rainfinity was subsequently acquired by EMC. While I was at EMC I founded the EMC R&D Center in China. Later at VMware I founded the VMware storage business unit and led the creation of the Virtual SAN or vSAN solution, a leading software-defined storage product that grew into a billion-dollar product. The most recent company that I founded, MemVerge, is revolutionizing data centers by unleashing the true potential of memory, or what we call Big Memory Computing
2.Give us a brief overview of MemVerge and how it came into existence.
Modern applications are generating bigger amounts of data that need to be processed at a faster speed. The existing storage architecture can no longer meet this need. We predicted that there will be new memory hardware innovations both in media and in interconnect that will enable a new memory-centric infrastructure. We started MemVerge to be on the forefront of this trend and create the software necessary to enable this new architecture.
