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

[Mehma Sarja]

Thanks Danielle,

Just get in contact me as the day gets closer.

Yudhvir
408 677 7660 cell
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On 5/6/11 8:07 AM, Danielle Tarp wrote:
>
> Yes, AB can speak at your October 5 meeting. Are there any other 
> details I should let him know in regards to his presentation?
>
> Danielle Tarp
>
> *Mindshare **PR***
>
> *From:*Mehma Sarja [mailto:mehmasarja at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 05, 2011 5:15 PM
> *To:* Danielle Tarp
> *Cc:* volunteers at lists.svlug.org
> *Subject:* Re: [volunteers] proposed speaker - Gluster, provider of 
> open source cloud storage solutions
>
> 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 <http://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 <mailto: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
>
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>
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