Carl D'Halluin

Carl D’Halluin brings over 25 years of deep expertise in designing distributed storage systems. He was a core architect behind Dell EMC Centera, the world’s first commercial object storage system. Centera established early standards for immutable and compliant storage. Carl was also the lead architect at Q-layer, a pioneer in cloud virtualization technology later acquired by Sun Microsystems. He continued pushing innovation at Amplidata as Chief Architect, designing an ultra-scalable, geo-distributed S3-compatible storage system. Following successive acquisitions by Western Digital and Quantum, this product is currently known as Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage. Now serving as Chief Technology Officer at Datadobi, Carl has shifted focus from the storage backend to the client layer, building intelligent software solutions for data analysis and data mobility in large-scale hybrid cloud environments, across file and object storage. An inventor at heart, Carl holds more than 25 patents in data storage technologies. His work continues to advance the state of the art in high-performance, hybrid data infrastructure for the enterprise.