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Jeff Barr
Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Biography
Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness of web services and
inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web
Services. Barr meets regularly with developers throughout the U.S. and
abroad to introduce Amazon Web Services by expanding platform and
showcase businesses that currently utilize the program's services.
Barr joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on
the Associates team and has a longstanding interest in Web services and
programmatic information interchange. He has held development and
management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, was a
co-founder of Visix Software, and launched the news feed service,
Syndic8.com. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from
American University and performed graduate work in computer science at
George Washington University.
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Andreas Bechtolsheim
Co-Founder, Chief Architect & Senior Vice President, Systems
Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Biography
Andreas Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee
number one, is Chief Architect and Senior Vice President for the Systems
Group, and is also a member of Sun's executive management team. In this
role, Bechtolsheim drives the rapid productization of next generation
network server technologies.
Bechtolsheim brings with him over 25 years of Network Computing
knowledge and expertise. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems where
he held a variety of roles including Vice President of Technology and
Chief Architect of Sun's highly successful workstation product line. He
invented the "Stanford University Network workstation" that eventually
became the Sun-1 Workstation and was instrumental in launching other
successful Sun products, including the SparcStation 1.
Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a Gigabit
Ethernet start-up company, that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996.
Andy became Vice President of Engineering and later Vice President
General Manager of Cisco's Gigabit Systems business which developed the
Catalyst 4000 family, the industry's highest volume modular Ethernet
switching platform.
Bechtolsheim returned to Sun via the Kealia, Inc. acquisition, a
company which he co-founded to develop advanced server technology.
Bechtolsheim received a MS in computer engineering from Carnegie
Mellon University in 1976 and he was a PhD student in Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He
has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a German National Merit
Foundation scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year
award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, and is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering.
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James Bottomley
SCSI Subsystem Maintainer, Linux Kernel
Biography
James Bottomley is CTO of Hansen Partnership, Inc. and a Director of the
Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He is the
Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port,
and the 53c700 driver. James has also made contributions to PA-RISC
Linux development in the area of DMA/device model abstraction.
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, James attended University at
Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He
joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager
technology for clustering. In 1997 James moved to the LifeKeeper HA
project. In 2000 James joined SteelEye Technology, Inc. as Software
Architect and later as Vice President and CTO.
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Steve Herrod
CTO and Sr. VP of Research and Development VMware, Inc.
Biography
Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and
technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups.
He has led the VMware ESX Server group through numerous successful
releases. Prior to joining VMware, Stephen was Senior Director of
Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code
Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in
Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with VMware's
founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.
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Andrew Tridgell
Founder, Samba Team
Biography
Andrew Tridgell is a long time Samba developer who spends his days
hacking on SMB/CIFS and related protocols. Andrew holds a PhD in
computer science from the Australian National University.
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Sponsors of the 2008 Storage Developer Conference Include:
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Plugfest Underwriter

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Contact Jay Savell for Sponsorship Information.
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