Empennage
Cloud for mobile and desktops to co-locate with mainframes as base for $30B market. Improves security, resilience, latency and scale at a reduced cost
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Software
- Location Birmingham, AL, US
- Currency USD
- Founded January 2007
- Employees 4
- Website mantissa.com
Company Summary
We've developed proprietary enterprise cloud technology for mobile and desktops to co-locate with mainframe transaction and database servers as a foundation for the $30B mobile transaction processing market. This combination of cloud and mainframe simplifies deployment and improves the end to end security, resilience, latency and scale at a reduced cost to alternative infrastructures. BYOD can be made safer.
Team
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PartnerRetired as IBM Distinguished Engineer in July 2013. His IBM roles included: Chief Architect of Mainframe Software (10 years), led Business Development/M&A for the mainframe (3 years), Security and Application Development marketing lead (3 years), Chief Business Architect for IBM Federal Sales (2 years). He focuses on the Go to Market Strategy for these products. Advisory Board of start ups: Callsign and Malcovery. Consultant to Vicom Infinity.
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PartnerCEO and Owner of Mantissa Corporation. As owner of Mantissa Corporation, he’s started from a fledgling company doing print management for a few local Southeast US corporations to an international operation with sales in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. This is an approximately $15M operation today. Gary is the lead developer of the x86 instructions in software.
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Jeff McDonaldPartnerDeveloper of the input output portion of the z86VM product and lead developer of the Mantissa output management suite. He became a part time/best can do developer in 2013 as continued development funding was inadequate to maintain a full time position. He has responsibility for the Plug and Play hardware and file system implementation within z86VM.
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PartnerDeveloper of the z86VM product and developer of the Mantissa output management suite. Tom became a part time developer/best can do developer in 2012 by his own choice. He provided much of the floating point implementation. In 2014, he voluntarily came back to work on the correction of the problems that were identified in Beta 3 and continues to provide part time development support.
Advisors
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Ed HammerslaPresident, Raytheon Cyber Products DivisionUnconfirmed
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