Biography

Kaladhar Voruganti is a Technical Director in the NetApp Advanced Technology Group, in Sunnyvale, California. He is interested in system serviceability and storage management analytics research areas. Recently, he has also been looking into the usage of FLASH as part of storage systems, and into the power management aspects of storage systems.  He previously worked at IBM Almaden Research in San Jose. He likes to both build systems and publish papers. He was involved in architecting/implementing industry's first iSCSI target controller (IBM TotalStorage 200i) that won the InterOp 2001, and Storage 2001 conferences innovative product awards. He was also an author of the naming/discovery and SLP discovery iSCSI IETF standards. He was one of the key people who conceptualized/architected/implemented the storage management analytics functionality into the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Centre product. This work helped IBM to become a leader in the area of storage management. He has won 3 Outstanding technical Achievement awards at IBM for his product work. He is currently supervising PhD students at multiple universities, has taught a graduate course in storage systems at UC Santa Cruz, and is actively publishing in USENIX FAST/Annual Technical Conferences for the past few years. He has also been a program committee member at IEEE Services Conference for the past few years. He is actively working with researchers at Georgia Tech, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. He got his BSc in Computer Engineering and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. He is a Senior member of IEEE.