David Nagle Google, Inc., 111 8th Avenue, New York, New York, 10011 (dfnaglegmail.com). From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Nagle co-led the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Network-Attached Secure Disk (NASD) project and served as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Parallel Data Lab at CMU. In 2001, he joined Panasas, designing their datapath architecture, including a two-level RAID layout that was standardized in the IETF NFSv4 pNFS standard. He has been a major contributor to all of the OSD standardization efforts, including ANSI T10 SCSI OSD V1.0 and V2.0.

Michael E. Factor IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (factoril.ibm.com). Dr. Factor holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Union College, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science, all from Yale University. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with a focus on storage and systems. He has been an architect of advanced copy functions for the IBM DS family of storage subsystems and takes a leading role in storage-related research, including such topics as long-term digital preservation, storage power, and object-based storage. Dr. Factor is chair of the security subgroup of the SNIA OSD standardization effort. In the past, he was the manager of Distributed and Clustered Systems at the Haifa Research Laboratory. Previous projects he was involved with include the Cluster Virtual Machine for Java**, the XML file system, the IBM iSeries* integrated file system, and the Web server for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Sami Iren Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (sami.irenseagate.com). Dr. Iren is a Research Staff Member at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the co-chair of SNIA OSD Technical Working Group and has been a major contributor to the standardization of the OSD (Object-based Storage Device) since 2002. His research interests include intelligent storage devices and interfaces, multimedia, and networking. Before joining Seagate, he worked in the telecommunications industry for 3 years as a researcher and developer. Dr. Iren has a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Delaware.

Dalit Naor IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (dalitil.ibm.com). Dr. Naor holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, all in computer science. She is a Research Staff Member and a manager of the Storage Systems and Performance Management group. She is developing advanced functions for storage systems, including support for long-term digital preservation and secure access to storage. She contributed to the development of the object storage T10 OSD standard, and in particular to the security protocol. Dr. Naor's prior areas of interests include combinatorial optimization, bioinformatics, applied security, and content protection.

Erik Riedel Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (erik.riedelseagate.com). Dr. Riedel leads the Interfaces and Architecture department at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His group focuses on novel storage devices and systems with increased intelligence to optimize performance, improve security and reliability, automate management, and enable smarter organization of data. He is a member of the SNIA Technical Council, helping to lead industry-wide education, technology promotion, and standardization efforts. He also serves on the technical advisory board for the Technology Collaborative supporting technology startups in Pennsylvania. Before joining Seagate, Dr. Riedel was a researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, working on networked storage, distributed storage, and security. He has authored and coauthored eight issued patents and has a number of pending patent applications, as well as numerous technical publications on a range of storage-related topics. Dr. Riedel holds B.S., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASDs).

Ohad Rodeh IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (orodehil.ibm.com). Dr. Rodeh received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa. He has worked on distributed systems, security, and storage. Currently, his main interest is machine learning. He also teaches a course on storage at the Tel Aviv University.

Julian Satran IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (julian_satranil.ibm.com). Mr. Satran holds an M.S.E.E. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. His current areas of interest span system and subsystem architecture, networking, and development and operating environments. He led several pioneering research projects in clustering, file system structure (and object storage), I/O and networking convergence (iSCSI), and future, more rational and scalable I/O subsystems. He has driven an industry-wide effort to standardize iSCSI and is now leading an effort to standardize object storage. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

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