[volunteers] Fwd: RE: proposed speaker - Gluster, provider of open source cloud storage solutions

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Mehma Sarja (mehmasarja at gmail.com), forwarding mail from
Danielle Tarp of Mindshare PR:

> Thank you for getting back to me. yes, the speaker would be AB
> Periasamy, CTO and co-founder at Gluster. I took a look at your
> website and tried to see if the presentations are vendor specific or
> not. He could discuss a petascale filesystem architecture or just
> provide a general overview of GlusterFS, whichever your group would
> prefer.

Heh.  AB (Anand Babu) Periasamy is a longtime friend and former
co-worker of mine, whom I worked with at California Digital Corporation.
(It's thanks to him that I know at least a few words of Tamil.)

Either of those topics is a bit specialised in its appeal for SVLUG.
OTOH, it might bring in people who don't normally attend.

I'd make a point of attending just because it's my friend AB.



> In 2004, AB led the development of the world's second fastest
> Supercomputer "Thunder", for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Yes, indeedy.  Worked on that with him.