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Avere Systems' Mike Kazar Earns IEEE Johnson Award
[August 06, 2012]

Avere Systems' Mike Kazar Earns IEEE Johnson Award


Aug 06, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Avere Systems announced that its CTO and co-founder Mike Kazar was named the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for his outstanding contributions to information storage systems.



According to a release, IEEE has sponsored various programs to honor achievements in education, industry, research and service.

Prior to Avere, Kazar was vice president and Chief Architect at NetApp working on Data ONTAP GX, the technology he developed while co-founder and CTO at Spinnaker Networks. Before Spinnaker, he was a Distinguished Engineer at FORE Systems working on LAN Emulation for ATM and several Ethernet to ATM bridge products. Prior to FORE, he co-founded and served as Chief File System Architect at Transarc Corp. (now part of IBM). Earlier in his career, Kazar worked on versions of Carnegie Mellon University's Andrew File System as well as the Andrew Toolkit, an OLE-like windowing toolkit.


"I am honored to have received the IEEE Johnson Award for contributions to the data storage industry," said Kazar. "I've been fortunate to have worked and collaborated over many years with outstanding people, including those at Avere, NetApp, Transarc and especially Carnegie Mellon, where many of these ideas originated. These collaborations have contributed to delivering fundamental advances in network file system architecture." Avere Systems markets NAS Optimization solutions.

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