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Greg DonnellsVP Check Infrastructure, CERTEGY, a division of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.BiographyCurrently, Greg is VP Check Infrastructure for CERTEGY, a division of Fidelity National Information Services. CERTEGY is an industry leader in real-time fraud and risk management for check transactions. For CERTGEY, Greg manages five datacenters and their associated infrastructure, systems, storage, databases, and redundancy. Previously, Greg has held IT leadership positions with General Parts, The Casey Group, Intermedia, DCI, Verizon, AT&T, and Harris performing roles as a program director, enterprise architect, system architect, and hardware architect. Over his 30 years in the IT industry, Greg has worked for 25 companies and over 70 projects, most of which involved new technology infusion, high transaction volumes, excessive storage demands, redundancy, and near-real-time data accessibility. Greg holds a BS in CIS, math minor from The Ohio State University. |
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Garth GibsonProfessor, Carnegie Mellon University; Founder and CTO, Panasas BiographyGarth Gibson is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Panasas Inc. (www.panasas.com) and a professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Gibson received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. While at Berkeley he did the groundwork research and co-wrote the seminal paper on RAID, then Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, and now a checklist feature throughout storage industry products. Joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1991, Gibson founded the Parallel Data Laboratory (www.pdl.cmu.edu), one of the premier academic storage system research lab; founded the Network-Attached Storage Device (NASD) working group of the National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC); and led storage systems research in the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC), one of the largest academic magnetic storage technology research labs. Gibson participates in a variety of academic and industrial professional organizations including an ongoing role on the steering committee of USENIX's File and Storage Technology (FAST) conference and as a past member of the technical council of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). ANSI T10's emerging standard for Object-based Storage Devices (OSD), and its sister SNIA OSD technical working group, were seeded by Gibson's CMU and NSIC/NASD research. In 1999 Gibson co-founded Panasas, a scalable storage system cluster vendor pioneering the commercial realization of object storage and targeted at Linux cluster computing. Gibson's contributions to computer storage have been recognized by the prestigious 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information storage. |
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Brewster KahleDigital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder Internet Archive BiographyBrewster Kahle, digital librarian and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for more than twenty-five years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive which may be the largest digital library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet which helps catalog the Web in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W. Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as a lead engineer for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive, and the Internet Archive. |
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Jim PinkertonPartner Architect, Storage Solutions Division, Microsoft Corporation BiographyJim Pinkerton came to Microsoft in 2000 (from Silicon Graphics), to focus on high speed networking. This resulted in a new standards organization being created (RDMA Consortium) as well as a new working group in the IETF (Remote Direct Data Placement). In parallel Jim led the creation of a general purpose stateful offload architecture in Windows, referred to as "Chimney", which was targeted to a variety of offloads, including TCP, IPSec, SSL, and RDMA. This culminated in shipping the Scalable Networking Pack, which was a high priority for both HP and Dell, among other OEMs. Other offloads which he helped architect include Receive Side Scaling (RSS) and Large Send Offload, version 2. After 5 years in Windows Core Networking, Jim transitioned into the Windows Core File Systems team and took part in creating the Storage Solutions Division (SSD). He was the main catalyst for the work that resulted in SMB/Client-Side Caching support for the "BrancheCache" feature of Windows (a peer-to-peer caching engine, created by Windows Core Networking). He has also spearheaded the work to move SMB from its traditional role of client focus to be credible as a file serving protocol for mission critical server applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and Hyper-V. This resulted in Windows 7 resilient handles (transparent network fault tolerance) and SMB large PDUs for optimized bulk transfers on 10 gigabit Ethernet. Jim represents protocols related to file storage on the Microsoft architecture review committee as well as to the Samba team and leads the Protocol documentation work for SSD. |
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Theodore Ts'oCTO, Linux Foundation BiographyTheodore Ts’o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and organizes the Annual Linux Kernel Developer’s Summit, which brings together the top 75 Linux Kernel Developers from all over the world for an annual face-to-face meeting. He was a founding board member of the Free Standards Group, and was chair of that organization until it merged with OSDL to form the Linux Foundation. He is one of the core maintainers for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems, and is the primary author and maintainer for e2fsprogs, the user space utilities for the ext2/3/4 file systems. At IBM, Theodore served as the architect for the Real-Time Linux development team. Theodore is currently on assignment with the Linux Foundation where he serves its Chief Technology Officer. |
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Wayne Adams, Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO, EMC |
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Nitin Agrawal, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin |
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Christian Allred, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft |
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Saad Ansari, Distributed File Systems, Microsoft Corporation |
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Gordon Arnold, STSM, Technical Strategy Storage Software, IBM |
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Jose Barreto, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
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Dr. Alexandros Batsakis, Member of the Technical Staff, NetApp |
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Kai Blin, Developer, Samba Team |
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Jeff Bonwick, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
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Brad Boyer, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Symantec |
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Mike Brasher, Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation |
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Molly Brown, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation |
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Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems |
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Gerald Carter, Senior Software Engineer, Likewise Software, Inc |
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Mike Chenery, President and Co-founder, Pliant Technology |
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Bikash Roy Choudhury, Solutions Architect, NetApp |
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Neal Christiansen,Microsoft Corporation |
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Chris Cicchetti, Product Marketing Manager, JDSU Corporation |
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Simona Cohen, IBM |
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Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates |
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Jason Cox, Editor, Storage Architecture Core Specification, Trusted Computing Group |
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John Crandall, Network and Storage Management Office of the CTO, Brocade While at Brocade, Crandall was one of the original architects of the Bluefin Specification and is a Principal Author of the SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and core team member of it’s steering group. Crandall also chairs the SNIA’s Fibre Channel Technical Work Group, is a member of the DMTF Technical Council, is the SNIA’s liaison to the DMTF, and is the Chair of the DMTF Core Schema Work Group. Also Crandall has been recognized by the SNIA as a SMI Distinguished Engineer and by the DMTF with the Star Award. Crandall has been with Brocade for over four years, has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise system management, and over 20 years as a high technology engineer. Prior to Brocade, Crandall was a Project Lead at Intel’s Fabric Components Division, responsible for defining requirements for Intel’s InfiniBand management products. While at Intel, Crandall developed the first prototype CIM provider for fabrics using InfiniBand prototype hardware. Prior to Intel, he held multiple project leadership positions at Siemens, where he worked on enterprise and network management. Prior to that, he spent a decade at GE developing flight control systems, advanced radar systems, voice switching control systems, and reactor information systems. Crandall holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University. |
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Kevin Crook, VP Product, Clearpace Software |
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David Cuddihy, Principal Engineer, ATTO Technology |
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Steven Danneman, Software Development Engineer II, Isilon Systems |
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David Deming, President, Solution Technology |
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David Dodgson, Software Engineer, Unisys Corporation |
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Gary Drossel, Director VP Product Planning, Western Digital Solid State Storage Business Unit |
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Chris Dunder, Student, Santa Clara University |
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Michael Eisler, Editor for NFSv4.1 Specification, NetApp |
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Liu Jun Feng, Staff Software Engineer, IBM CSTL |
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Dr. Sam Fineberg, HP |
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Vincent Franceschini, Senior Director of Future Technologies, Hitachi Data Systems Vincent is also Hitachi Data Systems' primary representative in leading industry standards bodies such as the SNIA. Board director of SNIA between 2001 and 2005, Vincent was elected Vice-Chairman of the Board in 2002 and 2003, and Treasurer of the SNIA Executive Committee in 2004. Re-elected Board Director in 2006, Vincent is proudly serving his second year as Chairman of the Board. Since 1999, Vincent has contributed to and held leadership roles in various SNIA activities such as SNIA International, Strategic Alliances, Storage Management Initiative and Grid. |
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Igor Gokhman, Senior Developer, Visuality Systems Ltd |
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Anil Gurumurthy, Architect, Wipro Technologies |
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Marcello Hasegawa, Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation |
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Christopher Hertel, CTO, ubiqx Development, Inc |
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Tom Hickman, Founder, Inside Outsource Consulting |
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Larry Hofer, Office of the CTO, Security Architect, Emulex |
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Abhinav Jawadekar, Founder, Sound Paradigm Software Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. |
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Dr. Joy Jiang, Product Line Manager, Finisar |
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Dr. M. K Jibbe, Distinguished Engineer/Tech Manager, LSI Corporation |
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Madhu Jujare, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft |
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Ran Kalach, Principal Development Manager, Microsoft Ran joined Microsoft in early 1999 working as a Software Design Engineer in the File System and Storage group in Windows core. Since then he worked as a Development Lead and Manager on several storage related project, among them VSS (shadow copies), backup and volume management. Before coming to Microsoft, Ran worked in Comverse – a companies which develops voice-mail and call-centers solutions, with a large development center in Israel. Ran has a BA in Math and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. In his spare time, Ran enjoys hiking, traveling and spending time with the family - his twin boys (5 years old) and daughter (8 tears old) keep him busy. |
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Kirubakaran Kaliannan, Principal Software Engineer, Symantec |
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Girija kumar raghav Kasinadhuni, Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies |
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Sajjad H Khazipura, Chief Architect and General Manager, Wipro Technologies Sajjad brings over 19 years of industry experience leading engineering teams and developing reliable, available, scalable SMP and NUMA Operating Systems, Server Technologies, Storage Software for the industry’s leading product vendors. In his capacity as the Chief Architect & General Manager, Sajjad owns the Service Management function for delivering new R&D services, leading co-innovation between Wipro’s customers and Wipro engineering teams in the design and architecture of new solutions. |
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Nico Kicillof, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
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Zack Kirsch, Software Development Engineer II, Isilon Systems |
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Frederick Knight, SAN Standards Technologist, NetApp |
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David Kruse, Lead Software Developer, Microsoft |
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Mohamed Lawindi, Software Development Engineer II, Microsoft Corporation |
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Albert Lee, Software Design Engineer II, Microsoft Corporation |
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Volker Lendecke, Samba Team/SerNet |
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Paul Long, Network Monitor Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation |
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Raghu Malige, Technical Director, Symantec |
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Murthy Mamidi, Technical Director, Symantec |
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Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Symantec |
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Brian McKean,Storage Architect, LSI |
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Michael Mesnier, Storage Systems Researcher, Intel Corporation |
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Bill Moore, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
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Anirban Mukherjee, Software Engineer, Symantec |
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Govindan Nampoothiri, Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies |
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Bartosz Nyczkowski, Software Development Engineer, Microsoft |
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Adi Oltean, Senior SDE, Microsoft Corporation |
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David Peterson, Senior Advisory Engineer, Brocade |
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Mark Rabinovich, Project Manager, Visuality Systems Ltd |
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Ravi Rao, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
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Sudhir Rao, Storage Platform Management Architect, IBM |
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Erik Riedel, PhD, Senior Director, Technology & Architecture, EMC Corporation Erik Riedel, Ph.D. is Senior Director of Technology & Architecture in the Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC in Cambridge, MA. The group is working to build cloud storage technology for deployment in private and public clouds. Focus areas include scalability, robustness, metadata-informed policy, multi-tenancy and security. Erik is a member of the SNIA Technical Council, helping to lead industry-wide education, technology promotion and standardization efforts. Before joining EMC, Erik was Director of Interfaces & Architecture at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA. The group he founded and led focussed on novel storage devices and systems with increased intelligence to optimize performance, improve security, improve reliability, and enable smarter organization of data. The technology targetted both large-scale enterprise storage clusters and ad-hoc collections of consumer and mobile storage devices working together. Previously, Erik was a researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. Erik holds B.S., M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).
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Ramani Routray, Senior Software Engineer, IBM |
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Afshin Salek, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
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Spencer Shepler, CTO, Storspeed |
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Piyush Shivam, Piyush Shivam |
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Richard Solomon, Host Interface Architect, LSI Corporation |
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Vivek Srinivasa, Tata Consultancy Services |
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Dr. Gradimir Starovic, Developer, Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG), Symantec |
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Lew Tucker, Sun Microsystems Tucker's interest in distributed computing started in the mid 80’s as a research scientist and Director of advanced development at Thinking Machines, working on machine vision and system architecture to create the massively parallel Connection Machine. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiology, and large-scale parallel algorithms. |
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Denis Vilfort, Senior Product Manager, Sun Microsystems Since joining Sun in 2002, Denis has played a pivotal role in growing Sun’s data management and storage offerings. A popular speaker, Denis frequently presents at Sun’s many venues and also enjoys consulting with Fortune 1000 customers on how to optimize data management strategies for maximum business impact. Denis’ distinguished 20-year Silicon Valley career spans executive, marketing, and technical sales management. Before joining Sun Microsystems, Denis was Sr. SAN Architect for QLogic Corporation, a leading provider of SAN HBAs and fabric switches. Prior to QLogic, Denis was Director of Strategic Marketing for Gadzoox Networks
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Masroor VP, Senior System Engineer, Wipro Technologies |
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Lisa Week, Software/Kernel Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
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SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
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Alan Wright, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
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Jian Yan, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
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Bo Zhou, Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems |