Computer Science Seminar

2011 Sep 20 at 15:00

DC 1302

Storage Virtualization

Smit Shah, MTS-Storage, Engineer, and Glen McCready, Sr. Staff Engineer, VMWare

The talk will focus on vSphere storage virtualization, some of the interesting storage solutions provided by VMWare like Storage VMotion, Storage DRS, Disaster Recovery and Backup and finally some insights on the future direction.

Bio: Smit Shah is an engineer for the core storage group at VMWare. He received his MS in CS from SUNY Binghamton.

In addition to the talk, the following Agenda has been developed for a VMWare Day at the University of Waterloo:

12:30 - 1:30: Event Kick-Off and Product Demos (Light Lunch Provided - DC 1301 Fishbowl) 1:30 - 2:15: Intern Program Overview & Intern Projects (DC 1302 Colloquium Room) 2:15 - 3:00: Engineer & Student Networking Mixer (Desserts Provided, Raffle & Giveaways - DC 1301 Fishbowl) 3:00 - 4:00: Tech Talk (DC 1302 Colloquium Room) 4:00 - 5:00: Faculty and Engineer Mixer (Appetizers & Drinks Provided - DC 1301 Fishbowl)

Additional Engineers on-site:

Jonathan Langmaid, (UW Alum)- Sr. MTS, R&D - Enterprise Desktop (VMware View) Saul Bancroft, (UW Alum)- Sr. MTS, Cloud Management (vCloud Director) Jason Schroeder, Staff Engineer, Applications Provisioning (vCloud) Rakesh Agarwal, Sr. Manager, R&D - Monitor Group