Advertising

The Seattle Times Company

NWjobs | NWautos | NWhomes | NWsource | Free Classifieds | seattletimes.com

The Seattle Times

Business / Technology


Our network sites seattletimes.com | Advanced

Originally published Monday, November 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Comments (0)     E-mail article     Print view

Figuring out what's become of Pi Corp.

Details are finally emerging about what's become of Pi Corp., the mysterious startup that former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz started in Pioneer Square.

Seattle Times senior technology reporter

Details are finally emerging about what's become of Pi Corp., the mysterious startup that former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz started in Pioneer Square.

Pi was launched in 2003 and sold in February to EMC, the Hopkinton, Mass.-based data-storage giant.

Maritz became head of EMC's cloud-computing efforts, and then in July was named chief executive of its VMWare virtualization-software subsidiary.

Meanwhile, the fate of Pi was largely unknown.

But today the company is announcing that it's being renamed Decho — short for "digital echo" — and merged with Mozy, a Pleasant Grove, Utah-based online backup and storage service that EMC acquired in 2007.

The Mozy service will continue to operate with its current brand name. It's now storing about 10 petabytes of data for customers, including consumers paying $4.95 per month for unlimited storage and businesses paying $3.95 plus 50 cents per gigabyte.

Decho, the parent company, will have its headquarters at Pi's offices in Pioneer Square. It has about 100 employees, including 20 in Seattle and others in Utah and Bangalore, India.

Maritz is on the Decho board, along with other EMC executives, and occasionally uses the Pi offices. But he's running VMWare from Palo Alto, Calif., according to Charles Fitzgerald, a former Microsoft platform strategist who joined Decho as vice president of product management at the start of the year.

Decho is close to hiring a chief executive who will be based in Seattle, Fitzgerald said.

Pi continues developing personal-information-management technology that will likely be added to Mozy next year, Fitzgerald said.

Brier Dudley: 206-515-5687 or bdudley@seattletimes.com

Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company

More Business & Technology headlines...

E-mail article Print view      Share:    Digg     Newsvine

Comments
No comments have been posted to this article. Start the conversation.

advertising

Nintendo re-enlists Mario, savior of video-game industry

Verizon-Frontier deal stirs concern among consumers

Brier Dudley: 'Guitar Hero' founder excited about future

Gaps for consumers in Democrat health care bills

Hutch gets $10M from Bezos family for immunotherapy research

Advertising

Video

Real Salt Lake wins MLS Cup
Real Salt Lake defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy with penalty kicks after 120 minutes of play at Qwest Field in Seattle.

Raw Video | Real Salt Lake receives the MLS Cup trophy
Raw Video | Real Salt Lake fans celebrate
Real Salt Lake fans enter Qwest Field
Raw Video | MLS Cup Opening Ceremony
LA Galaxy's David Beckham
Real Salt Lake's Kyle Beckerman
MLS trophy arrives in Seattle
Chittenden Locks Inspection
Full interview with New Moon actors

Marketplace

Open Houses

Find this weekend's open house listings.
Or search by location:

nwautos

Less is more: Group rides, good gas mileage have led to a scooter swarm in Seattlenew
Local riders say they've seen a surge in scooter interest in recent years, mostly from people wanting another commuting option. Seattle now ranks as o...
Post a comment

Advertising