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Experience > Technology (Computers)
Cracken, Harkey & Co., L.L.C. founded and built two technology companies, RLX Technologies, Inc. (www.rlx.com) and CriticaLogix, Inc. (CLX), between 1999 and 2001.
In 2001, RLX debuted the first production "server blade," a new technology that reduced a traditional 40-50 lb. rack-mounted server to a single printed circuit board assembly, along with a powerful blade-optimized software management tool. The server blade created a new product category in the Technology sector; following RLX's product launch, IBM, HP, and Dell created and announced their own server blade product line.
RLX has raised more than $100 million in private equity since its inception, and its leading venture partners include Soros Private Equity Partners (New York, NY), Sternhill Partners (Houston, TX), Austin Ventures (Austin, TX), Ignition (Bellevue, WA) and ComVentures (Palo Alto, CA).
CLX expanded upon RLX's concept by completing initial feasibility and design work for a blade-based, high-performance computing workstation, utilizing a solid-state, InfiniBand back plane and optimized as a platform for Beowulf clusters. RLX subsumed CLX in 2001, and in 2002 RLX produced their first dual-processor, high-performance server blade.