Sai co-founded 4Blox™ at the end of his doctoral work at Arizona State University. During the course of his research work at Arizona State University, Sai has worked on iSCSI protocol performance issues from the early days of iSCSI (2001) and has been looking into iSCSI performance with TCP/IP at very high speeds. Sai also worked with alternative technologies implementing Storage over Ethernet in 2002. His dissertation (2005) deals with a software architecture to improve the performance of existing iSCSI SANs, and also deals with issues of implementing alternate low overhead, reliable transport protocols for future storage networks.
Sai worked with Intel Research and Development and was a contributing participant in the early stages of the RDMA Consortium (formed by IBM, Cisco and Intel) to foster and promote new optimization techniques specifically for IP Storage and the emerging 10GbE architecture. Sai worked on the software design and implementation for one of first software prototypes of the iWARP suite of protocols in 2002. iWARP/RDMA is now one of the best known techniques to optimize end systems based on TCP/IP. RDMA is also used for infiniband.
Earlier in his career he consulted for Nortel Networks through Wipro Technologies, India. He worked with the verification and regression team for Nortel’s SONET products (OC-12, OC-48, OC-192). He was the technical prime for product regression for one of Nortel’s Optera (OC-192) line of products – The Optera Connect LH.
He is also a published author in leading journals and conferences on topics related to storage optimization. Sai received both his Masters and PhD in the field of IP Storage Optimization from Arizona State University and a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
