Oct. 7, 2009
Contact: Tamara Vassey
805-756-7446; tlvassey@calpoly.edu
Fibre Channel's Kumar Malavalli
Speaking Oct. 15 at Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Kumar Malavalli, considered one of the originators of high-speed Fibre Channel computer networking technology, will speak at Cal Poly on Thursday, Oct. 15 as part of the Orfalea College of Business Distinguished Guest Speaker Series.
Malavalli is chairman and chief security officer of data protection specialist InMage Systems and chairman of data security solution provider CryptoMill Technologies. He was a co-founder of Brocade Communications Systems, the leader in storage-area switching.
A 2003 inductee into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, Malavalli was chairman of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards’ technical committee in 1994 that developed the Fibre Channel specification.
He was co-founder and chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and was a founder and chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association. Both organizations serve the data storage industry as the primary technical and marketing resource for Fibre Channel.
Malavalli’s presentation is free and open to the public. His talk will run from 2:10 to 3 p.m. in the presentation room of the Advanced Technologies Lab (Building 7).
The event is co-sponsored by Cal Poly’s College of Engineering.
For more information, contact Tamara Vassey at 805-756-7446 or tlvassey@calpoly.edu.