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Paula Long is an American software engineer and entrepreneur. She is currently the CEO and co-founder of DataGravity. In 2001, she co-founded EqualLogic, which was later sold to Dell.
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Career
Paula Long attended college at Westfield State University in Westfield, Massachusetts. In her early career, Long worked at Bright Tiger Technologies in Acton, Massachusetts, where she supervised the product line of ClusterCATS, a web server clustering product. In 1999, Bright Tiger was acquired by Allaire Corporation, and Long went on to work at Allaire in several engineering management positions.
In 2001, Long co-founded storage provider EqualLogic in Nashua, New Hampshire alongside Peter Hayden and Paul Koning. In 2008, EqualLogic was acquired by Dell. Long remained at Dell as vice president of storage until 2010. After leaving Dell, Long worked as vice president of product development at Heartland Robotics.
In 2012, Long and John Joseph co-founded DataGravity, where she serves as CEO. The company, located in Nashua, New Hampshire, makes software that provides information about the transfer of and access to data on storage arrays.
Long has served on several boards, including SugarSync from 2010–2015, StorSimple from 2011–2012, and ClearSky Data since 2014.
Awards
Long won the New Hampshire High Tech Council's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008. That same year, Long won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the northeast region, and was also a national finalist for the same award.