Dinkar Sitaram

Dr. Dinkar Sitaram is a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, in Bangalore, India. He is one of the key individuals responsible for driving file systems and storage strategy, including cloud storage. His R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. Dr. Sitaram received his Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He joined as a research staff member in IBM’s Research Division at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. At IBM, Dr. Sitaram received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (an IBM Corporate Award) as well as IBM Research Division Award and several IBM Invention Achievement Awards for his patents and research. He also received outstanding paper awards for his work, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of High-Speed Networking.

Subsequently, he returned to India as Director of the Technology Group at Novell Corp. Bangalore. The group developed many innovative products in addition to filing for many patents and standards proposals. Dr. Sitaram received Novell’s Employee of the Year award. Before joining HP, Dr. Sitaram was CTO at Andiamo Systems India (a storage networking startup later acquired by Cisco), responsible for architecture and technical direction of an advanced storage management solution.