Dr. Rao Mikkilineni

Dr. Rao has over 27 years of experience in both Telecommunications and IT industries. He has held research and senior management positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, US West, Network Programs Inc, SS8 Networks, and LightSand Communications. Most recently, he held the position of Director, storage systems and services engineering at Comstock Systems, which was later merged with Hitachi Data Systems Inc., in USA.

His practical experience in applying leading-edge technologies to radically improve productivity and quality of Operations and Management in telephony, IP networking and storage networking provides a unique perspective on the role of enterprise systems and technologies. He has written many papers on application of AI and Expert Systems in network operations & management, object oriented technology and software productivity, Video on Demand services management and new approaches to storage service delivery.

Gopal Kankanhalli

Gopal has over 17 years technical experience in architecture, and management, development of Operating systems, Networking protocols, Multimedia technologies, Storage solutions, Media Management, Web Caching and Acceleration, Streaming Media Servers, Proxy servers (HTTP, MMS), Authentication, Policy Management, Fibre channel drivers, Storage virtualization, Storage Provisioning, Disaster Recovery, Backup Applications and Compute Virtualization.

Prior to joining VirtualXL, Gopal worked at VMware, Inc Palo Alto.CA leading the storage management team focused on building Disaster recovery solutions. Gopal has held various engineering and management positions at Symphony Services, EMC Corp, Wipro Technologies, Bluecoat, Commvault Systems and IBM to name a few. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Marquette University Milwaukee, WI and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from BMS CE, Bangalore.