Explosion of Data & Trends in Storage Systems - Ken Boyd, IBM Distinguished Engineer November 16, 2010

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Venue: Seminar Hall No. 2 (aka Room No. 6)
Near the Library and Production Dept., Main
Building Area
College of Engineering, Pune

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Do participate in this unique opportunity to hear all about the new
technology as well as interact with the legend himself

About the speaker:

Ken, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, is a lead storage architect and designer working on
IBM’s XIV Storage Server and SONAS products. Ken recently completed a two year
IBM international assignment in Israel where he served as XIV Chief Architect and he
led the XIV team in defining the architecture, system engineering, and integration of XIV
into IBM. Ken started his IBM career after graduating from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign in 1974 with a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering. After
beginning as an IBM logic designer, Ken held a variety of engineering and management
positions in Poughkeepsie, NY before transferring to Tucson, AZ in 1987. Advancing in
IBM’s storage development team in Tucson, Ken led several organizations, including
hardware development, microcode development, technical support marketing, and
product management. Ken made significant contributions to IBM high end storage
products, including the IBM 3990 Storage Controller, the IBM Enterprise Storage
Controller (now known as the DS8000 family), and the XIV Storage System. He was
promoted to IBM Director in 1993 and was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer in
2003. In July 2005 Ken received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for significant
contributions to developing and protecting IBM Intellectual Property. Ken has achieved
an IBM 12th Plateau Invention Achievement Award and has been named an IBM Master
Inventor. Ken earned a M.B.A. degree from the University of Arizona and he is a Senior
Member of the IEEE.

Abstract of the talk:

An "explosion" of data, including "unstructured" data is having a profound effect on
society, technology, and the storage industry. This increase in digital content is driving
system storage developers to innovate new approaches to satisfy the demand of the
market. This presentation will review some of the contributors to the extensive growth in
data. The impact on industry storage system development will be examined with a
review of current leading storage system attributes. How the focus of leading edge
storage systems is shifting to absorb the massive amounts of data will be discussed.
Finally a discussion of near future developments will make that case that storage systems
will continue to be a "hot bed" of innovation and exciting change for the foreseeable
future.