About Me

- Niraj Tolia
- Silicon Valley, California, USA
- Kasten, EMC, Maginatics, HP, Intel, Cisco
- HP Labs, Carnegie Mellon University (x3)
Bio
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Dr. Niraj Tolia is the CEO and Co-Founder at Kasten, an early-stage startup working on cloud-native storage infrastructure. Previously, he was the Senior Director of Software Engineering within the Data Protection Cloud group at EMC and ran the Maginatics engineering team that was responsible for the CloudBoost family of products. Prior to EMC’s acquisition of Maginatics in 2014, he was a founding member of the Maginatics team and played multiple roles within the company including VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, and Staff Engineer.
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Before Maginatics, Niraj was a Senior Researcher in the Exascale Computing Lab at HP Labs where he led research into data-intensive computing, next-generation non-volatile memories, Infrastructure-as-a-Service systems, and next-generation data centers.
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Niraj received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a part of the Parallel Data Lab, and conducted research on distributed storage systems with an emphasis on wide area network data transfer. He also received a MS degree in Computer Engineering and a BS degree in Computer Engineerng with an additional major Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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For more information, you can always check out Niraj's CV.
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Consistent, Durable, and Safe Memory Management for Byte-addressable Non Volatile Main Memory
Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems (TRIOS '13)
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SNIA SDC 2013
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SNIA SDC 2013 - With Speaker Notes
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Pegasus: Coordinated Scheduling for Virtualized Accelerator-based Systems
2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '11)
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Redesigning Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
2nd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2011)
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Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11)
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Topology-Aware Resource Allocation for Data-Intensive Workloads
1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (ApSys2010)
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Opportunities and Challenges to Unify Workload, Power, and Cooling Management in Data Centers
5th International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design (FeBID 2010)
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A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach to Energy Management in Data Centers
1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2010)
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Unified Thermal and Power Management in Server Enclosures
ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK '09)
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InterPack '09
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Optimal Fan Speed Control for Thermal Management of Servers
ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition (InterPACK '09)
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GViM: GPU-accelerated Virtual Machines
3rd Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2009)
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Delivering Energy Proportionality with Non Energy-Proportional Systems -- Optimizing the Ensemble
Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '08)
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HotPower '08
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Interactive Resource-Intensive Applications Made Easy
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007)
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Using Content Addressable Techniques to Optimize Client-Server Systems
Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Improving Mobile Database Access Over Wide-Area Networks Without Degrading Consistency
5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007)
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MobiSys 2007
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VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration
3rd International ACM Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '07)
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Consistency-preserving Caching of Dynamic Database Content
16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
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WWW 2007
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Benchmarks for Mobile Database Access
Invited Talk, 1st International Workshop on System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms (MobiEval 2007)
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MobiEval 2007, Invited Talk
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Pervasive Personal Computing in an Internet Suspend/Resume System
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 2, March, 2007
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Design Tradeoffs in Applying Content Addressable Storage to Enterprise-scale Systems Based on Virtual Machines
2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '06)
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An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer
3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '06)
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NSDI '06
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Quantifying Interactive User Experience on Thin Clients
IEEE Computer, Vol. 39, No. 3, March, 2006
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Integrating Portable and Distributed Storage
3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04),
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FAST '04
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Opportunistic Use of Content Addressable Storage for Distributed File Systems
2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '03)
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USENIX '03
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Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates
2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03)
Contact Info
I am based in Silicon Valley in sunny California, USA. To get in touch, feel free to contact me via email, Twitter, LinkedIn, or smoke signals. The last method isn't too reliable though.