CAISS Dinner Seminar

Date: Jan. 22, 2009 (Thursday)

Registration: 6:30 ¡V 7:00 PM

Dinner: 7:00 ¡V 8:00 PM

Seminar: 8:00 ¡V 9:00 PM

Place: China Stix Restaurant, 2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, (408) 244-1684

Title: Synergistic Data Storage Solution with Flash and Hard Disk

Speaker: Debasis Baral, VP of Samsung Information System America, SISA Storage Labs

Seminar Abstract:

There has been a recent push to bring solid state storage into the IT storage hierarchy. NAND flash has largely displaced hard disk drives (HDD) in mobile consumer applications, effectively eliminating the use of HDDs in the sub 1.8 form factors. Based on these events, it is commonly assumed that solid state storage is poised to make significant inroads in the IT storage space. However, forecasting the success of new technologies has been problematic. I have invented Chasm Analysis as a means for identifying the market potential for storage technologies, by examining the foundations from an economic perspective. The efficacy of the methodology will be tested against historical data. I will then perform the analysis for the evolution of HDD and flash in the IT space. The results will be instructive for other solid state technologies as well. At the end we will discover the implications for the future of HDD and Solid State Storage.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Steven R. Hetzler is an IBM Fellow at IBM's Almaden Research Center (San Jose, Calif.), where he manages the Storage Architecture Research group. He is currently focusing on novel architectures for storage systems and on applications for non-volatile storage. Previously, he initiated work on the IP storage protocol that is now known as iSCSI, which he later named. The group under his management developed the concept from an idea to the first specification before joining with Cisco to bring the work to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). His group developed the first working iSCSI demonstrations, including the first direct network-attached DVD movie multiplex.

Steven has been issued 38 patents for inventions in a wide range of topics -- including data storage systems and architecture, optics, error correction coding and power management. His most notable patents include split-data field recording and the No-ID(TM) headerless sector format,which have been used by nearly all magnetic hard-disk-drive manufacturers for a number of years. He also pioneered the first adaptive power technology for disk drives.

Steven was educated at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.), where he received his Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Applied Physics in 1986 and 1982 respectively. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1980 from Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). He joined IBM Research in November 1985 and was named an IBM Fellow in 1998.