Malavalli, Kumar oral history
Kumar Malavalli was a co-founder of Brocade Communications, the switch manufacturer which led industry into the realm of SANs (Storage Area Networks). Kumar was an original participant and active developer of the Fibre Channel standards in the T11 Accredited Standards Committee. His mixed background in telephony and process control systems, brought insights on how to structure networks that were foreign to LAN (Local Area Network) environments. Until Fibre Channel and the supporting infrastructure of Name Servers, Zones et al became available; there was no way to manage storage as a site entity.
Item Details
- Date
- 2012-04-03 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102746234
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Dal Allan (Interviewer)
Kumar Malavalli (Interviewee)
Eric Dennis (Videographer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Gift of Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 56 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6471.2012
- Subject
- Network, Storage History
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection