I/O Consolidation in the Data Center
Silvano Gai,who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has more than 27 years of experiencein computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and technicalpublications on computer networking and multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs. He is responsiblefor 30 issued patents and 50 patent applications. His background includes 7 years as a fullprofessor of computer engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and seven yearsas a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientifi c Research). For the past 12years, he has been in Silicon Valley where, in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architectof the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, of the Cisco MDS family of storage networkingswitches, and of the Nexus family of data center switches. Silvano teaches a course on I/OConsolidation, Data Center Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet at Stanford University(see http://scpd.stanford.edu/certifi cates/fcoe).  Claudio DeSantiis a Distinguished Engineer in the Advanced Architectures & Research organizationat Cisco. He represents Cisco in several National and International Standards Bodies,such as INCITS Technical Committee T11, IEEE 802.1, IETF, and in industry associations. Heis vice chairman of the INCITS T11 Technical Committee, chairperson of various workinggroups, including FC-BB-5, where FCoE has been developed, and technical editor of differentstandards, including IEEE 802.1Qbb, where Priority-based Flow Control is defi ned. He isauthor of several patents and international publications, including ten RFCs in IETF and otherstandards in the American National Standard Institute. He received many honors and awards,including the INCITS 2008 Technical Excellence Award, the INCITS 2007 Team Award, and theINCITS 2006 Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management. Claudio’s researchinterests include network protocols, storage networking, routing, and security. He holds a Ph.D.in computer engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.