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Kiran Srinivasan, NetApp

Kiran Srinivasan has been a member of the technical staff and a researcher at NetApp since November 2006. His current work involves investigating virtualization technology to provide fault isolation for NetApp NAS products. Prior to joining NetApp, he worked at ONStor on its NAS Gateway product. At ONStor, he played a key role in the design and implementation of the company's network virtualization solution, which enables consolidation of storage servers across an enterprise. In addition, he helped build the consolidated multiprotocol file system security model of ONStor (a hybrid of Windows NT® and UNIX® security models). Prior to ONStor, he worked at IBM Almaden Research Center, where his work involved constructing cluster infrastructure for large-scale data-mining applications. He received his MS degree from Rutgers University in 2001. For his thesis, Srinivasan developed a novel transport layer protocol (Migratory-TCP) to provide system support for highly available server applications. The protocol enabled migration of live connections between instances of the server application.