OSNEXUS: Storage upstart that funded itself before gaining angel wings

IBM SoftLayer provides the magic carpet ride

Take one ambitious Citrix engineering director who wanted to start his own storage company, sprinkle in $2m of angel funding and seven years later you find a IBM SoftLayer-blessed 20-person startup competing with DataCore. Nexenta and $100m+ funding, and other VC-backed software-defined storage vendors. How did that happen?"