Presenter

Since 2010 Sai Narasimhamurthy worked as a Staff Engineer, Seagate Research (formerly Lead Researcher, Emerging Tech, Xyratex) on R&D for next generation storage systems. He has led and contributed to many European HPC and cloud storage research initiatives on behalf of Xyratex (2010-­) and is currently the project co­ordinator and technical lead for the SAGE H2020 Project. Previously (2005 ­- 2009), Sai was CTO and Co­founder at 4Blox, inc, a storage infrastructure software company in California addressing IP SAN performance issues as a software only solution. Sai has worked on IP SAN protocol issues from the early days of iSCSI (2001). Sai also worked with Intel R&D and was a contributing participant in the first stages of the RDMA consortium (put together by IBM, Cisco and Intel) for IP Storage and 10GbE (2002). Sai Obtained his PhD from Arizona State University focusing on IP based Storage Area Networks (2005).