Biographical sketches of authors

Jai Menon IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (menonjm@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Menon is the department group manager of the Computer Science Storage Systems Group in IBM Research and Codirector of the Storage Systems Institute. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1977. He earned Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Ohio State University in 1978 and 1981, respectively. In 1982, he joined IBM Research in San Jose, California, where he became a pioneering researcher and designer of data storage systems and RAID (redundant array of independent disks) architectures. In May 2001, he was named an IBM Fellow. An IEEE Fellow, an IBM Master Inventor, and member of the IBM Academy of Technology, Dr. Menon has received numerous IBM technical awards, published 31 refereed papers and 46 technical reports, and is a contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He also holds 42 U.S. patents and has 20 additional patent applications on file. He received the 2002 W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE for “Leading Contributions to the Architecture and Design of Data Storage Systems and RAID Technology.”

David A. Pease IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (pease@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Pease is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Almaden Research Center and manager of the Storage Software department. Since 1996, he has managed the Storage Tank research project. He began working on storage systems research projects at Almaden in 1990. In addition to Storage Tank, he has worked on projects relating to the Tivoli Storage Manager product (formerly known as IBM ADSM) and the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system for DVDs. For 12 years prior to joining IBM, Mr. Pease ran his own business, consulting and teaching software development and operating systems. In 2000, he completed his work for a Master of Science degree in computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is currently a Ph.D. degree candidate.

Robert (Bob) Rees IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (rees@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Rees is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Almaden Research Center. He joined IBM Research in 1982 and has received several IBM technical and Invention Achievement awards for his work in storage-related systems. Most notably, he was the chief architect and team leader of the Tivoli Storage Manager product (formerly known as IBM ADSM) and is currently the chief architect and team leader for the Storage Tank SAN file system project. Mr. Rees received a B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Linda Duyanovich IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (lduyanov@us.ibm.com). Ms. Duyanovich is a senior program manager for IBM's Storage Software Products. From 1999 to 2002, she built and managed the product development team that worked jointly with IBM Research in Almaden on the Storage Tank project, targeted at the storage network environment. Over her more than 20 years with IBM, Ms. Duyanovich has held a variety of management and technical positions in storage systems development and performance. From 1996 to 1999, she was Vice President of Product Development at MatriDigm Corporation, where she led development of rules-based software maintenance tools. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanislaus State College in 1976 and earned a Master of Science degree in operations research from Stanford University in 1977.

Bruce Hillsberg IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (blh@us.ibm.com). Mr. Hillsberg is Director of Storage Software Strategy and Technology for the Systems Group. He is responsible for developing the technology strategy for IBM storage infrastructure software, identifying and incubating new technologies, and identifying emerging opportunities for the storage software business. He joined IBM in 1981 and has spent most of his career managing the development of networking and systems management software. Most recently, Mr. Hillsberg has worked in the IBM Software Group on middleware integration initiatives. Previously, in IBM's Banking, Finance, and Securities Industry Solution unit, he was responsible for the Year 2000 testing strategy for IBM's internal applications, and he developed Internet appliances for the small business marketplace.