Network Disk
, Inc. was founded by Dr. Ilya Gertner in 1998 to develop portable, scalable, and reliable storage system software for enterprise systems at a cost far less than existing products. Dr. Gertner is widely published in the field of computer science and is considered a leading authority on high-availability clusters, parallel programming, high performance networking, and I/O architectures. He designed, and his group implemented, the industry's first UNIX high-availability cluster that was later sold to Digital/Compaq and which provided the basis for Tru64 Unix Cluster products. He invented and implemented with his team disk-based data sharing technology. He was the chief architect of Encore's Storage Product (SP) Division which was sold to Sun Microsystems in 1997 for $185M. He was also general manager of the advanced development group at a remote site where many many innovative products, such as Remote Dual Copy, InterShare and DataShare have been implemented. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Rochester and B.Sc. from Technion in Israel.Network Disk
, Inc. develops open, Windows NT-based and Linux-based intelligent storage systems that will force a change in the storage industry and have a serious impact on the Internet server industry. In comparison to existing vendors, Network Disk, Inc. makes two leaps forward: it uses off-the-shelf, Intel-based hardware and off-the-shelf, Windows NT-based and Linux-based software. Advances in Intel processors (which happen several times a year) assure performance leadership in Network Disk, Inc. architectures. Similarly, reliance on the standard Windows NT and Linux operating system assures availability of a vast variety of devices and drivers available in the PC marketplace. Furthermore, availability of third-party storage management software provides a competitive edge to Network Disk, Inc.The company’s VP of sales and marketing, Duran Alabi, is experienced in all facets of sales and marketing. His prior experiences include Micropol and Digital Equipment Corporation (now Compaq).
The company’s Director of Business Development is Gila Greenberg, an EMC alumni experienced in product marketing with emphasis on customer service contracts and product planning.
The company’s Principal Engineer, Peter Walker, is a specialist in real-time embedded systems, SCSI I/O and multithreaded programming.
Ilya Gertner. " Networking Disk Drivers: A New Approach to Network Storage" . Network Storage 2001 Conference, Moneterey, CA, . June 11-14, 2001.
Ilya Gertner. "Windows NT Clusters and Intelligent Storage in an Enterprise;. Microsoft TechNet Annual Symposium 99, Boston, MA . October 25-27, 1999.
Ilya Gertner. "True Data Sharing: A Simple Solution to a Complex Storage Challenge". Server I/O '97 Conference, High Performance I/O Architectures. January 27-30, 1997.
Ilya Gertner. "Encore Storage Processor Overview". SHARE-87 Session 3031. New Orleans, LA. August, 1996.
Ilya Gertner, et al. "Disaster Recovery Using an Open UNIX Multiprocessor that Supports Remote Dual Copy and Concurrent Copy". SHARE-87 Session 3018. March, 1996.
Ilya Gertner, Stephen Mckellar, and Mark Aldred. "A Distributed Lock Manager on Fault Tolerant MPP". Computer Architecture Track, 28th HICSS Conference. January, 1995.
Ilya Gertner and Ike Nassi. "Symmetric Parallel Processing". Aerospace Software Engineering: A Collection of Concepts. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., Volume 136, pp. 505-521. 1991.
Ilya Gertner, Ziya Aral and Greg Schaffer. "Efficient Debugging Primitives for Multiprocessors". ASPLOS-III Conference. Boston, MA. May, 1989.
Ilya Gertner, Ziya Aral and Alan Langerman. "Variable Weight Processes with Flexible Shared Resources".
USENIX 1989 Winter Conference. San Diego, CA. February, 1989. Also implemented in UNIX BSD 4.4.
Ilya Gertner and Ziya Aral. "Parasight: A High Level Debugger/Profiler Architecture for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors". 1988 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. Saint Malo, France. July 4-7. 1988.
Peter Walker and S. Ghosh. "Asynchronous Distributed Event Driven Simulation for Execution of VHDL on Parallel Processors". 32nd Design Automation Conference. San Francisco, CA. June 12-16,1995.
Peter Walker and S. Ghosh. "Asynchronous, Distributed Event Driven Simulation Algorithm with Inconsistent Event Preemption for Accurate Execution of VHDL Descriptions on Parallel Processors". High Performance Computing Symposium 95. Phoenix, Arizona. April 9-13, 1995.
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