Dr. Sai Narasimhamurthy

Sai Narasimhamurthy is currently Senior Researcher, Seagate Research (formerly Lead Researcher, Emerging Tech, Xyratex) working on Research and Development for next generation storage systems (2010-). He has also actively led and contributed to many European led HPC and Cloud storage research initiatives on behalf of Xyratex (2010-) and currently the project co-ordinator and technical lead for the SAGE H2020 Project consortium. Previously (2005 - 2009), Sai was CTO and Co-founder at 4Blox, inc, a storage infrastructure software company in California addressing IP SAN(Storage Area Network) 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 focussing on IP based Storage Area Networks (2005).