Distinguished Speaker Series
Distinguished Speaker, Kumar Malavalli. Mr. Malavalli is the Chairman and CSO of data protection specialist InMage Systems and is also currently the chairman of leading edge data security solution provider CryptoMill Technologies. Kumar Malavalli co-founded/ Brocade Communications Systems, the leader in storage area switching. He was also the 2003 inductee into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Kumar is considered one of the originators of Fibre Channel. He was Chairman of the ANSI INCITS T11 Technical Committee in 1994, when it developed the Fibre Channel specification. He was the co-founder and Chairman of FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association), and was a founder and Chairman of SNI (Storage Networking Industry Association). Both of these organizations serve the storage industry as the primary technical and marketing resource for Fibre Channel.
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