Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
South Suite Software
Location Athens, Georgia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Brantley brings more than 30 years of technical and managerial experience with a range of technology companies and research institutions including Network Translation, Cisco Systems, Adaptive, Digital Transmission Systems, AT&T Bell Laboratories and the University of Georgia. He has an extensive background in designing communications protocols
and operating systems for telephony applications and Internet infrastructure technologies.
In 1994, Brantley co-founded Network Translation, Inc. where he created the PIX Firewall appliance that created a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing stateful packet inspection. Cisco Systems acquired Network Translation and the Cisco PIX™ Firewall, generating multi-billion dollar sales since its launch, became the industry standard appliance firewall. Within a year of the release of the PIX™, Brantley and his team designed, developed and introduced the industry's first Server Load Balancer, the Cisco LocalDirector™, spawning a multi-vendor industry that continues to thrive.
Brantley left Cisco and in 2000 he founded Coraid to design and develop innovative network storage devices. At Coraid, he created the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) open lightweight network storage protocol that is the basis of the EtherDrive family of SAN products. He is an alumnus of the Computer Science Department at the University of Georgia and a Commercial Pilot.
