Michael L. Kazar

Michael L. Kazar, Ph.D.
Nationality United States American
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation CTO of Avere Systems, Inc
Known for Co-founder of Avere Systems, Inc
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Michael L. Kazar

Michael received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science.

Michael is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Avere Systems, Inc, where he designed and oversaw the development of the Avere OS and the virtual cloud bursting software, the vFXT. Previously he was CTO of Spinnaker Networks. Spinnaker Network was sold to Netapp in 2004.[1] Before Spinnaker, Michael worked at FORE Systems and co-founded Transarc in 1989 (acquired by IBM in 1994). Transarc commercialized the Andrew File System (AFS) that was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon.

Michael is a co-creator of Andrew File System[2] (AFS). He was recognized for his lifetime body of work and received the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award.[3] This is an IEEE annual award given for outstanding contributions to information storage systems. Michael holds 38 patents related to file systems design.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Network Appliance Acquires Spinnaker".
  2. ↑ "Avere Management Team Profiles".
  3. ↑ "IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Recipients".
  4. ↑ "US Patent Collection for Michael L. Kazar".
  5. ↑ "IPEXL Patent List for Michael L. Kazar".