An Introduction to NetApp

Speaker: Steven Kleiman, Network Appliance
Host: Prof. Shahram GhandeharizadehAbstract:
NetApp is a $3B company you may not a have heard of, yet it stores the data of many of the world's largest companies. NetApp has a different approach to data storage. This talk will discuss some of these innovative approaches, and why data storage is such an interesting problem.Biography:
Steve Kleiman is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at Network Appliance and is responsible for setting future technology directions for the company. He has been involved with the design and development of file systems, UNIX and workstation architecture since 1977; first at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he helped develop the first x86 based UNIX product, and then at Sun Microsystems Inc. At Sun he was a Distinguished Engineer and chief architect of clustered UNIX systems. Previously, as Chief Technologist for Sun's Interactive Services Group, he designed Sun's first video server product line. He was also the lead architect for multithreading and multiprocessing in Solaris and is a member of the POSIX Pthreads committee. He was the developer of the Vnodes file system interface and was a member of the original NFS development team at Sun. He was also the project leader of the original port of SunOS to SPARC. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1978 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T in 1977. He is the author or co-author of 17 conference or journal papers, 40 patents, and 1 book.

Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: CS Colloquia