[Storage-research-list] Mike Kazar wins 2013 IEEE RBJ Information Storage Systems Award

[Garth Gibson]

http://www.ieee.org/ucm/groups/public/@ieee/@web/@org/@about/documents/file/42122664.pdf 

IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEMS AWARD - for outstanding contributions to information storage systems with emphasis on computer storage systems – sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems—to

MICHAEL KAZAR (Nonmember) - Founder of Transarc Corporation and Chief Technology Officer, Avere Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

“For developments in networked global file systems and clustered data storage that shaped commercial networked file access and the emergence of cloud storage.”

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Congratulations to Mike!  From AFS to Spinnaker to NetApp and now Avere, quite a list of influential storage systems.

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Nominations for the 2014 IEEE RBJ Information Storage Systems Award are open until Jan 31 2013.  Instructions on submitting a nomination, the process, committee and past winners, can be found at:

http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/johnson.html