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

[Mehma Sarja]

Danielle,

Please confirm if Mr. Periasamy can do a 5 October 11 speaking 
engagement in Mountain View. Thank you and please feel free to call me 
at any time.

Yudhvir
===

On 5/5/11 12:36 PM, Mehma Sarja wrote:
> Hi Danielle,
>
> Thanks for your interest. Do not recall an earlier message from you. 
> What will be the subject of the talk and is Mr. Periasamy providing 
> the talk? Would the speaker be available for a talk in October 2011? 
> We meet monthly, 1st Wednesday evenings, 7-9 PM, at Symantec's Vcafe 
> room, 350 Elllis Street, Mountain View, CA 94043, near E. Middlefield 
> Road.
>
> I will poll our users to see if there is interest. Please expect a 
> message from me in the next couple of days.
>
>
> Yudhvir Singh Sidhu
> Speaker Coordinator
> Silicon Valley Linux User Group
> www.svlug.org
> 408 677 7660 cell
> ===
>
> On 5/5/11 12:16 PM, Danielle Tarp wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to follow up on my email below regarding a possible 
>> presenter for an upcoming meeting. The email below includes more 
>> information. Please let me know if you are interested are have any 
>> questions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Danielle
>>
>> Danielle Tarp
>>
>> *Mindshare **PR***
>>
>> *From:*Danielle Tarp [mailto:danielle at mindsharepr.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:04 AM
>> *To:* 'speakers at svlug.org'
>> *Subject:* proposed speaker - Gluster, provider of open source cloud 
>> storage solutions
>>
>> Hi --
>>
>> I thought the SVLUG would be interested in a presentation from Anand 
>> Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder at Gluster (www.gluster.com 
>> <http://www.gluster.com>). Gluster focuses on delivering solutions 
>> that provide the fastest path to public and private cloud storage. 
>> GlusterFS is at the core of Gluster's scale-out storage solutions.  
>> GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of 
>> scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.
>>
>> I have included more information about the product and AB's bio 
>> below. If you are interested in having AB has a speaker at any of 
>> your upcoming meetings please let me know. Thanks!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Danielle
>>
>> GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband 
>> RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources 
>> and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on 
>> a stackable user space design and can deliver exceptional performance 
>> for diverse workloads.
>>
>> GlusterFS supports standard clients running standard applications 
>> over any standard IP network.  Figure 1, above, illustrates how users 
>> can access application data and files in a Global namespace using a 
>> variety of standard protocols.
>>
>> No longer are users locked into costly, monolithic, legacy storage 
>> platforms.  GlusterFS gives users the ability to deploy scale-out, 
>> virtualized storage -- scaling from terabytes to petabytes -- in a 
>> centrally managed and commoditized pool of storage.
>>
>> *Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO*
>>
>> As CTO and Co-founder, AB sets the vision and strategy for the 
>> Gluster product platform. Prior to Gluster, AB served as CTO at 
>> California Digital Corporation, where his work led to the scaling of 
>> the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. 
>> He drove the adoption of cluster computing and GNU/Linux at 
>> enterprise data centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. 
>> In 2004, AB led the development of the world's second fastest 
>> Supercomputer "Thunder", for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 
>> AB also serves on the board of "Free Software Foundation -- India". 
>> He is the author / contributor of various other Free Software 
>> projects like GNU FreeIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management 
>> Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP Daemon), bios-config 
>> (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC interpose for GNU 
>> Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk (Scheme 
>> extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo (Scheme 
>> extensible messenger for YahooIM). He holds a Computer Science 
>> Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
>>
>> Danielle Tarp
>>
>> *Mindshare PR*
>>
>> 650.947.7405 - direct
>>
>> 408.921.7063 - mobile
>>
>> danielle at mindsharepr.com
>>
>> http://www.mindsharepr.com
>>
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>>
>>
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