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Tom Wilkie

Tom Wilkie
VP Engineering, Acunu Ltd

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Tom leads the engineering team at Acunu. He previous worked in a range of engineering roles at both Citrix and XenSource managing key customer projects with major enterprises. As one of the first employees at XenSource he played a key part in developing the XenServer management stack. He holds an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University where he was also a research assistant.

Sessions

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/26/2011
Castle: Reinventing Storage for Big Data
Data: Big Data
 Location: C121/122
Tom Wilkie (Acunu Ltd)
Average rating: ****.
(4.80, 5 ratings)
The standard Linux storage stack wasn't designed for write-heavy big data workloads, nor is it well-suited to modern hardware: large, slow SATA disks, SSDs or many cores. Castle, an open-source project, is a ground-up overhauling of RAID, file systems, and the POSIX interface. Read more.