The next NICTA Big Picture Seminar will be delivered by:
Dr Evangelos Eleftheriou
"Trends in storage technologies"

Abstract - The high random and sequential I/O requirements of contemplated workloads could serve as impetus to move faster towards storage-class memory (SCM), a technology that will blur the distinction between memory and storage. On the other hand, the volume of digital data being produced is increasing at an ever accelerating pace. Recent technology demonstrations indicate that low-cost, low power tape storage is well positioned to scale in the future and thus serve as archival medium. In this talk, we will review the recent advance made in non-volatile memory technologies as well as the trends in magnetic storage, and discuss the implications of two technology extremes, namely, SCM and tape, on the storage hierarchy.

Biography - Dr. Eleftheriou received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 1985. In 1986, he joined IBM Research, Zurich in Ruschlikon, Switzerland, where he currently manages the Storage Technologies Department, which focuses on phase-change memories, scanning-probe techniques and metrology, as well as tape drive technology and solid-state drive technology and systems. In January 2002, Dr. Elefheriou was elected Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers). He was a co-recipient of the 2003 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Award and co-recipient of the Eduard Rhein Technology Award in 2005. The same year, he became an IBM Fellow and was inducted in the IBM Academy of Technology. In 2009, he was a co-recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award.