Tech Moves: Xbox vet joins 9Slides; Blessington lands at ExtraHop; Mixpo bolsters team

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Aaron Khoo has joined Redmond online presentation startup 9Slides as director of engineering. Khoo is the former CTO at PaidPunch, and before that held numerous engineering roles at Microsoft, primarily working on Xbox. Khoo holds a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University. “Aaron brings in vast experience working with large companies like Microsoft where he managed… Read More…

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel leaving EMC: Next gigs to include angel investing and diaper duty

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When Isilon Systems sold to EMC for $2.25 billion in December 2010, Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel made a pledge to stick around for two years or get the storage company to a $1 billion revenue run rate. Now, with Isilon creeping up on its two-year anniversary of the sale and on the path to hit… Read More…

Sujal Patel’s love letter to startups: 6 reasons why you should make the plunge

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The University of Washington computer science department sends more than half of its grads to just four companies: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. And while those tech giants pay well — on average more than $100,000 for software developers — they’ve certainly moved well beyond the startup phase. So, what’s it going to take to… Read More…

Ex-Isilon, Amazon engineers start stealthy Qumulo

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Isilon System is one of the biggest startup success stories of the past 10 years, with the Seattle storage company rebounding from tough times to sell for a whopping $2.25 billion to EMC in late 2010. The company has continued to grow in its new Pioneer Square headquarters, even gobbling up Bellevue-based Likewise Software last month…. Read More…

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

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EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot “Center of Excellence” in the heart of Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. It is a big bet by EMC on Seattle, which operates similar engineering facilities near Boston, Raleigh-Durham and Silicon Valley. It also follows the… Read More…

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

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Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add 200 more workers locally over the next 15 months. The company has 430 people in Seattle currently, and 800 companywide. The data storage company says the growth will represent a 75 percent increase in employment… Read More…

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

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There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than that of Isilon Systems. Co-founder Sujal Patel retold that tale today at the WTIA’s TechNW event, reliving how the online storage company emerged from a near death experience to be sold to EMC for $2.25… Read More…

Tech industry bolsters Seattle office market as Isilon, Zillow, Google and others expand

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We’ve been tracking a number of high-profile real estate expansion stories in the Seattle tech industry in recent weeks, from HTC’s desire for a new building in Pioneer Square to Zillow’s new offices in downtown Seattle to Zulily’s rapid expansion in SoDo to Google’s new Bothell campus. Now, a report by the real estate firm… Read More…

Apple plans huge storage buy from Isilon: Could this be the backbone of its ‘media locker?’

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Holy, Toledo. That was my reaction after reading a report in The Register that Apple has agreed to buy as much as 12 petabytes of storage from Isilon Systems, the Seattle company that was gobbled up by EMC late last year. Now, what in the world would Apple need with all of that storage capacity?… Read More…