- Kumar Malavalli
Kumar Malavalli is currently the chairman and CSO of
data protection specialist [http://www.inmage.net InMage Systems] . Other InMage founders are Rajeev Atluri, Sam Inala, Srihari Kumar, NS Rao and Anup Tirumala. InMage Systems pioneered the concepts of event based recovery and continuousdata protection . You can visit http://www.inmage.net for more information about the company.Kumar Malavalli is also currently the chairman of leading edge data security solution provider [http://www.cryptomill.com CryptoMill Technologies] . Other CryptoMill founders include Nandini Jolly (CEO), and Daniel Thanos (CTO). CryptoMill has pioneered the development of a three element data security solution based on; Protection (Data Encryption), Control (Data Firewall) and Containment (Data Binding). The solution named SEAhawk; provides the industries first cryptographic data storage firewall that provides internal data security above and beyond just the external data security other solutions provide.
Kumar is also the chairman and co-founder of [http://www.orchesys.com Orchesys, Inc.] Orchesys is a technology solutions company with its roots as a storage services provider to major vendors such as NetApp and HDS since 2005.
Prior to this, Kumar Malavalli co-founded
Brocade Communication Systems , the leader in storage area switching. He was also the 2003 inductee into theSilicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.Kumar is considered one of the originators of Fibre Channel. He was Chairman of the ANSI [http://www.t11.org/index.html 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 SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association). Both of these organizations serve the storage industry as the primary technical and marketing resource for Fibre Channel.
Kumar Malavalli is a noted entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2005, he established at Endowed Professorship at the
University of California, Santa Cruz .External links
* [http://www.fibrechannel.org/ Fibre Channel Industry Association] (FCIA)
* [http://www.t11.org/index.html INCITS technical committee responsible for FC standards(T11)]
* [http://www.snia.org Storage Networking Industry Association] (SNIA)
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