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About the Authors
Amar Kapadia is a storage technologist and blogger based in the San Francisco
Bay Area. He is currently the senior director of product marketing for Mirantis,
the #1 pure-play OpenStack company. Prior to Mirantis, he was the senior director
of strategy for EVault's Long-Term Storage Service, a public cloud storage offering
based on OpenStack Swift. He has over 20 years of experience in storage, server, and
I/O technologies at Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar's current passion is in cloud and
object storage technologies. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from
the University of California, Berkeley.
When not working on OpenStack Swift, Amar can be found working on
technologies such as Kubernetes, MongoDB, PHP, or jQuery. His blogs can
be found at www.buildcloudstorage.com.
I would like to thank my wife for tolerating my late-night and
weekend book-writing sessions.
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Kris Rajana is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, passionate about building
globally distributed teams to deliver innovative infrastructure solutions. His areas
of interest include data infrastructure and fast-emerging open source cloud storage
technologies, such as OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Dockers/Containers, and big data.
As the CEO of Vedams and Biarca (an offshoot of Vedams), he takes immense pride
in his team and its development, which leads to excellence in execution. Kris has
over 20 years of experience in managing engineering teams in fields such as space,
aviation, storage at BFGoodrich Aerospace, Snap Appliance (currently Overland
Storage), Adaptec, Xyratex, and Sullego. His current passion is DevOps, and he likes
to leverage leading open source cloud technologies to make enterprises more agile,
speed up the development and deployment of modern enterprise applications, and
make IT operations more efficient. Kris earned his doctorate in engineering science
from Pennsylvania State University.
He is a member of the board of the Pratham Bay Area Chapter. Along with the
Vedams team, he is a sponsor of an urban learning center in Hyderabad. He is a
student and sevak of the San Jose Chinmaya mission.
I would like to thank my family for their patience and support.
I would also like to thank all my mentors and teachers over the years.
Sreedhar Varma has more than 15 years of experience in the storage industry,
and has worked on various storage technologies such as SCSI, SAS, SATA,
FC HBA drivers (Adaptec, Emulex, Qlogic, Promise, and so on), RAID, storage
stacks of various operating systems, and system software for fault-tolerant and
high-availability systems. He has good experience with SAN, NAS, and iSCSI
networks; various storage arrays (Dothill, IBM, EMC, Netapp, Oracle Pillar, and so
on); object storage implementations (Swift and Ceph); and software development
using the corresponding REST APIs.
Sreedhar is currently working for Vedams software providing storage engineering
services. In the past, he has worked for Stratus Technologies, Compaq, Digital
Equipment Corp, and IBM. He has a master's degree in computer science from
the University of Massachusetts.
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About the Reviewers
Steve Martinelli is a software developer for IBM, and has been involved with
OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core contributor to OpenStack's Identity
Service—Keystone. He primarily focuses on enabling Keystone to better integrate
into enterprise environments. Steve has helped federated identity, auditing, and
OAuth support to Keystone. In his spare time, he contributes to OpenStackClient,
PyCADF, and Oslo Policy as a core contributor.
Juan J. Martínez is an experienced software developer with a strong open source
background. He has been involved in OpenStack object storage since the Bexar
release. His work related to Swift includes the customization and deployment of an
award-winning cloud storage solution. He currently maintains a number of open
source projects that provide access to the storage using common protocols (FTP,
SFTP, and NBD). Juan is currently employed by Memset, a British cloud provider
based in Cranleigh.
Christian Schwede is a principal software engineer working at Red Hat. He started
working on OpenStack Swift in 2012. He is a core reviewer and contributor to Swift.
Christian's main interests are open source software, storage systems, cloud computing,
and software-defined infrastructure.
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