John Schroeder

John joined Calista Technologies based on seeing customers struggle with the challenges of efficiently managing physical IT resources while providing a highly productive environment. Virtualization is the key architecture for reducing operating and capital information technology expenses while providing user productivity advances. John’s goal is to bring virtualization technology to industry-standard hardware and software. Server and storage virtualization have become mainstream “must have” technologies. Calista is bringing the value of virtualization to the desktop. John has over 25 years of technology industry experience. In his most recent operating role, John was President and CEO of Rainfinity, the storage virtualization pioneer and market leader. Rainfinity was successfully acquired by EMC in 2005 and the Rainfinity storage virtualization appliance is a key technology in the EMC’s server (VMWare) and storage virtualization strategy. John has held executive positions and been an officer of both public and private companies. In addition to Rainfinity previous positions include Senior Vice President of SQRIBE Technologies (acquired by Brio Technology); Open Systems General Manager at Compuware and General Manager of DB2 Products at Candle Corp. John has a BS in computer science from Southern Illinois University.