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michael l. kazar usa american co-founder of avere systems , inc michael l. kazar
 michael l. kazar , ph.d. . cto of avere systems , inc massachusetts institute of technology carnegie mellon university
michael l. kazar

michael received a bachelor of science in mathematics and a bachelor of science .
in electrical engineering and computer science from the massachusetts institute of technology and a ph.d. from carnegie mellon university in computer science .
michael is co-founder and chief technical officer of avere systems , inc , where he designed and oversaw the development of the avere os and the virtual cloud bursting software , the vfxt .
previously he was cto of spinnaker networks .
spinnaker network was sold to netapp in 2004 .
before spinnaker , michael worked at fore systems and co-founded transarc in 1989 -lrb- acquired by ibm in 1994 -rrb- .
transarc commercialized the andrew file system -lrb- afs -rrb- that was originally developed at carnegie mellon .
michael is a co-creator of andrew file system -lrb- afs -rrb- .
he was recognized for his lifetime body of work and received the 2013 ieee reynold b. johnson information storage systems award .
this is an ieee annual award given for outstanding contributions to information storage systems .
michael holds 38 patents related to file systems design .
