Julian Satran: IBM Research Division, Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com) – graduated (MSc EE) in 1962 from the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, Romania. After graduation Julian has held senior positions in industry and Academia in Romania. Julian has immigrated to Israel in 1979 and has held senior position in industrial R&D in Israel. Since 1987 Julian is with the IBM Research Laboratory at Haifa. Currently he is Distinguished Engineer and his areas of interest span system and subsystem architecture, networking, development and operating environments. He lead several pioneering research projects at the lab in clustering, file system structure (and object storage), I/O and networking convergence (iSCSI) , has driven an industry-wide effort to standardize iSCSI and is now driving an effort to standardize Object Storage. Julian is also frequently teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses (Advanced OS, OS, Advanced Storage) at the Haifa University and the Technion. Julian is a member of IEEE and ACM.