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2008 SDC FEATURED SPEAKERS

Jeremy Allison

Co-lead, Samba Team

Biography

Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Jeremy Allison is the co-lead of the Samba Team.

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.

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.

Val Bercovici

Office of the CTO

Biography

Val Bercovici is a member of the office of the CTO. In this capacity he is responsible for the competitiveness of NetApp’s evolving technical strategy. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Bercovici helps define NetApp’s vision for the storage and data management markets.

Bercovici joined NetApp in 1998 as the first Canadian systems engineer and the first alliance manager for IBM/Lotus; he also helped shape NetApp’s messaging and collaboration strategy. More recently, he pioneered the role of NearStore®/compliance/ILM evangelist and led NetApp’s Competitive Advantage team.

Prior to joining NetApp, Bercovici worked for Cognos and AT&T (NCR), where he served both the private and public sectors in areas such as operating systems and enterprise resource planning applications development, business intelligence, UNIX® database and data warehousing architecture, as well as Microsoft® applications infrastructure.

Bercovici holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.

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.

Mark Carlson

Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems

Biography

Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in June 1998.

Steve Herrod

Chief Technology Officer, VMware

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.

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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