Communications - August 2008

Doi: 10.1145/1378704.1378717

Leaders in the storage world offer valuable advice for making more effective architecture and technology decisions.

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Roundtable

FEATURING SEVEN WORLD-CLASS storage experts, this roundtable discussion is the first in a new series of CTO Forums focusing on the near-term challenges and opportunities facing the commercial computing community. Overseen by the ACM Professions Board, the goal of this series is to provide working IT managers expert advice so they can make better decisions when investing in new architectures and technologies. This is the first installment of the

discussion, with a second installment slated for publication in the September issue.

Recognizing that Usenix and ACM serve similar constituencies, Ellie Young, Usenix Executive Director, graciously invited us to hold our panel during the Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ‘08) in San Jose, Feb. 27, 2008. Ellie and her staff were extremely helpful in supporting us during the conference and all of us at ACM greatly appreciate their efforts.

— Stephen Bourne

Participants

Steve Kleiman—Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, Network Appliances.

Eric Brewer—Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Inktomi co-founder ( acquired by Yahoo).

Erik Riedel—Head, Interfaces & Architecture Department, Seagate Research, Seagate Technology.

Margo Seltzer—Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Sleepycat Software founder (acquired by Oracle Corporation), architect at Oracle Corporation.