ADVISORY/Spinnaker CEO to Discuss the Next-Generation Storage Revolution At Storewidth 2002.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday (March 24) Storewidth 2002 --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO & WHAT: Ron Bianchini, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Spinnaker Networks -- an innovative leader in developing next-generation NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular storage systems -- will participate in a special event highlighting private companies within the storage industry at Storewidth 2002, March 24-27, in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Ron will offer his views on the storage market during the "Pre-IPOs Aimed at Leading the Next-Generation Storewidth Revolution" panel on March 24, from 8:30 to 9:15 p.m. Executives from other promising private storage companies, including Yotta Yotta, Cereva, Surgient, InterSAN, Nishan Systems, and Scale Eight will join him on the panel. Ron brings a vast amount of technical expertise and data storage market experience to the panel. Before joining Spinnaker, he was vice president of product architecture at FORE Systems See Marconi. . In 1995, Ron co-founded Scalable Networks to design and implement a large-scale Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. switch. Earlier, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , where he researched fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. and the scalability of ATM switch architectures. Ron holds numerous patents in fault tolerant distributed systems and high-speed network design and has been published extensively in technical journals. He received a B.S.E.E. from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon. WHERE & WHEN: Storewidth 2002 Conference Serving Up Storewidth: Roundtable II "Pre-IPOs Aimed at Leading the Next-Generation Storewidth Revolution" The Ritz Carlton -- Laguna Niguel Laguna Niguel, Calif. March 24, 2002; 8:30 to 9:15 p.m. BACKGROUND: Spinnaker Networks, Inc., is pioneering next-generation distributed storage systems for enterprise customers and service providers. Spinnaker's innovative distributed architecture delivers unsurpassed scalability and performance in a system that significantly reduces management costs and complexity. Spinnaker was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. -- a geographic region with significant storage systems development and research. The Spinnaker management team comprises industry veterans from startups and F50 enterprise server, storage, and networking companies. First-round investors include Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.spinnakernet.com. |
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