Jonathan Burton is a software engineer for IBM UK. He works on the SAN Volume Controller and Storwize development team, which he joined as in 2015. Most recently, he worked on the first release of the IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize Software only project. Before joining IBM, he attained degrees both in physics and philosophy.

Anuj Chandra works as a development lead for the IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ product family working out of IBM Storage Labs in Pune, India. After joining IBM in 2010, he managed development for various features, and currently leads iSCSI protocol development. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and has worked on various storage products in his career over 17+ years.

Jordan Fincher is a Product Field Engineer working in Storage Support at IBM. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Information Security from Western Governor’s University. Jordan first started his IBM career in 2012 as a Systems Engineer for the IBM Business Partner e-TechServices doing pre-sales consulting and implementation work for many IBM accounts in Florida. In 2015, Jordan started working in his current role as a Product Field Engineer for IBM Spectrum Virtualize storage products.

Kushal Patel is a Test Specialist at the IBM India Software Defined Systems and Storage Lab. He has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, and holds an invention plateau for creative contributions to IBM. He works for the IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize team, and possesses expertise in the validation of the iSCSI protocol on SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize storage systems.

Torsten Rothenwaldt is an IT Specialist at the IBM European Storage Competence Center with a focus on virtualization and high availability (HA) solutions with IBM Spectrum Virtualize products. He is an author or co-author of several IBM Redbooks publications and journal articles.

Torsten’s IBM career includes positions in the Software Group and in the IBM System x Server Division. He holds a master’s degree in Mathematics. Before joining IBM in 1996, he worked in industrial research, as a software developer, and as a system administrator.

Subhojit Roy is a Senior Technical Staff Member working at IBM India Labs, Pune. He works as a development architect for IBM Spectrum Virtualize products. He has worked on data storage, storage virtualization, and storage networking for 23 years for organizations such as IBM, Veritas, Brocade, and Symantec. Seven of those years have been at IBM, where he works on Ethernet and IP storage architectures, and strategy for IBM Spectrum Virtualize products. He is the lead architect for high-speed Ethernet interconnect to all flash storage that involves iSER and NVMeF. Before he worked at IBM, he developed several key features for enterprise storage products. He is a Master Inventor and Member of the Academy of Technology at IBM.

Bharti Soni is a Staff Systems Software Engineer at IBM India Storage Development Lab. She works on the development of features for IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize. She has five years of experience in the storage domain. Her areas of expertise include iSCSI storage protocol, iSer, and networking protocols, such as VLAN and PFC. She has a masters degree in Computer Application from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Shalaka Verma currently heads the IBM Storage Technical Sales Team for the Asia Pacific region. She has experience working with major FSS/Retail customers in India and South Asia on end-to-end infrastructure stack solutions, and drives architectural transformation of enterprise data.

Megan Gilge was a Project Leader at the IBM International Technical Support Organization. Before joining the ITSO, she was an Information Developer in the IBM Semiconductor Solutions and User Technologies areas.