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Summary Sentence: Siva Sivaram, executive vice president, SanDisk Corporation will deliver a talk titled, "Head in the Cloud: Computing and Storage in the Connected World."
Full Summary: Siva Sivaram, executive vice president, SanDisk Corporation will deliver a talk titled, Head in the Cloud: Computing and Storage in the Connected World.
Siva SivaramHead in the Cloud: Computing and Storage in the Connected World
By the year 2020, annual data generation is expected to exceed 40 billion terabytes. Edge and cloud connected devices have fueled the need for massive storage advances. Ability to store, access, process, and analyze this data has opened up new frontiers in big data computing, networking, and memory technologies.
This talk traces our journey from a traditional computing constrained environment to a data centric computing architecture. We will review the current storage and memory markets and state-of-the-art in component technologies. We will also examine the big breakthroughs that are fueling our ability to handle this explosion in data. The move from rotating magnetic media to three-dimensional, solid-state storage drives and the emergence of a new category of memory called the "Storage Class Memory" will be outlined.
Siva Sivaram, executive vice president for SanDisk Corporation, will discuss how market realities blend with the unrelenting progress in technology. He will provide perspectives from pioneers in the field to evaluate where the big opportunities for innovation will emerge.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the lobby of Bunger-Henry.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Siva Sivaram is the executive vice president of memory technology for SanDisk, responsible for the ongoing development of the company's industry-leading NAND flash memory, as well as the development of next-generation technologies, including 3D NAND (BiCS) and 3D ReRAM. Sivaram has over 27 years of experience in semiconductors, 3-D memory architectures, process technology, equipment and materials. He has held executive positions at Intel and Matrix Semiconductor (Matrix), and at SanDisk after its acquisition of Matrix. Additionally, he founded and led Twin Creeks Technologies, a solar panel and equipment company, has served as a board member for a number of start-up firms, was entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and XSeed Capital, a research scholar at Matsushita Electric, and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University.
Sivaram has published numerous technical papers as well as a textbook on chemical vapor deposition, and he holds several patents. He earned his doctorate and master’s degrees in materials science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, India, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
