Paula Long
Paula Long | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, Software engineer |
| Known for | Co-founder of DataGravity, Co-founder of EqualLogic |
Paula Long is an American software engineer and entrepreneur. She was CEO and co-founder of DataGravity and in 2001, she co-founded EqualLogic, which was later sold to Dell.
Early Life
Born in Methuen MA, Paula grow up in Enfield CT. She received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Westfield State University in Westfield, Massachusetts.[1]
Career
Long began her career as a software engineer. She was a consulting software engineer in the UNIX operating system group at Digital Equipment Corporation[2] before her move to the startup community.
She worked at Bright Tiger Technologies in Acton, Massachusetts, where she was responsible for the ClusterCATS product line, a web management clustering product. In 1999, Bright Tiger was acquired by Allaire Corporation, and Long went on to work at Allaire in several engineering leadership positions.[3]
Long was Director of Software at Iron Stream, seed funded in 2000 and closed during the dot-com melt down.
In 2001, Long co-founded storage provider EqualLogic in Nashua, New Hampshire alongside Peter Hayden and Paul Koning. She was responsible for development of the EqualLogic product lines. In 2008, EqualLogic was acquired by Dell[4][5] for $1.4 billion. Long remained at Dell as vice president of storage until 2010.[3]
After leaving Dell, Long worked as vice president of product development at Heartland Robotics for 9 months between 2010-2011[6][1]
In 2012, Long and John Joseph co-founded DataGravity, where she served as CEO. Located in Nashua, New Hampshire, the company raised $92M from Charles River Ventures, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and Accel Partners[7]. DataGravity produced security and data protection software for data storage systems. The company notably went through several product direction changes and layoffs[8][9], and after failing to secure additional financing, the company was signed over to a liquidator in June 2017.[10] The assets of DataGravity were sold to HyTrust in July 2017.[11][12]
Long has served on several boards, including SugarSync from 2010–2015,[13] StorSimple from 2011–2012,[14] and ClearSky Data since 2014.[15]
She hold patents in data storage, data analytics, data protection, data security and file systems.[16]
She’s spoken at conferences such as Structure,[17] TechCrunch,[18] Collision,[19] MIT[20] and RSA.[21]
Awards
Long won the New Hampshire High Tech Council's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008.[22] That same year, Long won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the northeast region, and was also a national finalist for the same award.[3]
In 2015 she received the “Women 2.0 Impact Builder Award” award for her work helping women in technology.[3]
References
- ^ a b Rajala, Liisa (20 July 2016). "Entrepreneur Paula Long describes how it's done". New Hampshire Business Review. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ Denham, Jeffrey; Long, Paula; Woodward, James. "DEC OSF/1 Symmetric Multiprocessing". Digital Technical Journal. 6.
- ^ a b c d Dunn, Laura (5 January 2016). "Women in Business Q&A: Paula Long, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, DataGravity". Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ "This Woman Who Sold Her First Startup For $1.4 Billion Has Simple Advice For Future Female Entrepreneurs". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ "Paula Long sold her last startup for $1.4 billion, but insists it's better to go public". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ "Executive shuffle at Heartland Robotics: Paula Long out, Elaine Chen in as head of product development". Boston.com. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ "DataGravity - CB Insights". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "DataGravity axes gear, sheds staff as it pulls away from black hole". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "DataGravity moves away from arrays to become a virtualised data guardian". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "DataGravity swallowed by mystery buyer". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "Like Newton's apple, startup DataGravity lands with a thud - Storage Soup". searchstorage.techtarget.com. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "The Lord saw that man was wicked and sent a flood of storage news". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "SugarSync Appoints New Board Member". SugarSync. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ "EqualLogic Co-Founder Joins StorSimple Board of Advisors". BusinessWire. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ "About ClearSky Data". ClearSky Data. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ "Paula Long Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Paula Long Archives - Structure Events". Structure Events. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ Wilhelm, Alex. "DataGravity's Paula Long Talks Storage And Billion-Dollar Exits". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ Collision Conference (2015-09-07), Collision 2015 - Enterprise Stage - Paula Long, retrieved 2017-11-11
- ^ "Paula Long". Start6. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ "Ransomware | USA 2017 | RSA Conference". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ "Entrepreneur of the Year Overview". New Hampshire High Tech Council. Retrieved 5 October 2016.