ATG Overview

2 Calsoft Technical Activities Review of New Technology Prototypes Student Projects … 2010 ATG Formation Knowledge Sharing Calsoft Talent Showcase 2011 Talks (Technology) Conference Papers Student’s Projects 2012 Talks (CPF) Fresher’s Training 2013 Talks (Conference) Calsoft Training Coding Fests Competency Centers Core Frameworks ATG – Calsoft Advanced Technology Group Objective – Knowledge Growth, Showcase Talent, Calsoft Technical Growth, Prepared for Business… Calsoft Dev Process More Conferences Competency Centers … Tools and Technologies Coding Fests… …

3 ATG Talks Technology Talks Product Talks Conference Talks Software Defined Storage Pillar Storage SystemPermabit DeDup EngineFusionIO - ioSphere Hitachi Application ProtectorBluearc NASHitachi SNM2 IBM Scale Out NASNeverfail Heartbeat Software Defined Networking

4 Technical Conferences IBM SCO Connector (HNAS) Calsoft Cloud Gateway VM Archival System OpenStack Swift Object Striping Quantum / Cinder Plug-in

5 University Linkage  Students Projects  Objective – Breed and Recruit/Hire Fresh/Bright Students from Colleges  – Aprx. 25 people interviewed and 5 offers from last year BE Project Groups  – Aprx. 20 BE Project Groups in Storage / OS / Cloud / Virtualization area  Internships – Interns working on Internal projects  Events  Objective – Connections with students community. Invitations to open house event.  PICT Concepts and Impetus  Project – X Technical Show  Talks / Sessions in Colleges in coming years …

6 Training  Fresher’s Training 2013  Course Modules Storage (NAS / SAN / Storage Mgmt.) Operating Systems (User / Kernel Space) Virtualization (Eco System / Core) Networking (Basics / Advanced) Software Development (Soft Processes, Dev. Methodologies, Ethics…)  Exercise/practical driven Topics  NFS and CIFS Training in August 2013  More structure courses for everyone in coming days..

7 Competency Centers  Storage Competency NAS (NFS / SMB) SAN Storage Management (SMI-S, Plug-ins)  Cloud Competency Python OpenStack  Network Competency Network Technologies Software Defined Network  OS Competency Linux Kernel Improvements  QA Competency Testing Techniques, Tools, Methodologies, etc.  Virtualization VMWARE Eco System Plug-ins (SCVMM, vCenter, etc.) Hyper-V

8 Calsoft Core Frameworks Calsoft Internal Open source Forum If you have project idea, then this is the forum to talk to for guidance, showcase, help, collaborate, etc. What does it provide ? Platform: SVN, Wiki, Mailing lists, Document and visibility, help, etc. Highlights of the Projects STORAGE iSCSI Test Suite SMI-S Simulator Storage Simulator nDisks_LIO File Lock Tool IO Validation Tool SMB3 Functional Test VSS Provider Template STORAGE iSCSI Test Suite SMI-S Simulator Storage Simulator nDisks_LIO File Lock Tool IO Validation Tool SMB3 Functional Test VSS Provider Template CLOUD Cinder plugin Swift plug-in Swift Xattr FIST based Xattr support Quantum Plug-in Horizon Plug-in OpenStack Deployment OpenStack VVOL CLOUD Cinder plugin Swift plug-in Swift Xattr FIST based Xattr support Quantum Plug-in Horizon Plug-in OpenStack Deployment OpenStack VVOL VIRTUALIZATION vCenter Plug-in VAAT Test Suite VIRTUALIZATION vCenter Plug-in VAAT Test Suite OS / Software Auto_Test_Framework Calsoft Code Library Gorgon OS / Software Auto_Test_Framework Calsoft Code Library Gorgon

9 Proposals Storage Data Integrity Validation Windows Change Block Tracking Windows Filter Driver File System Testing Cluster Management CIFS Implementation SCSI Test Suite VAAI SCSI Implementation (LIO) Performance Benchmarking NAS Implementation Global Namespace Porting Network WAN Data Transfer Optimization OpenStack Quantum Plug-in Storage Management / Data Protection HP Storage Provisioning Plug-in SNMP Implementation Snapshot Solution Oracle EM Plug-in Device Mapper VSS Provider – at least 4 proposals Cloud / Virtualization OpenStack Integration Testing vCenter Plug-in – Multiple proposals P2V Converter SCVMM Cinder Plug-in

10 Other Activities  Recruitment METTL as the Platform for Fresher’s Recruitment – Evaluation / New Recruitment time reduced from few days to few hours Interviews  Coding Fests Coding Fest-1 with 25 participants this year Plans to include QA Team in the exercise  Expert Share Network Competency Center’s “Friday forum  Contents / Blogs for Calsoft Website Articles / Technology Notes  Connection Platform Calsoft Chat GEEKS mailing list

11 How can I Contribute / Join ?  Active participation in GEEKs Forum / Calsoft Chat (as an expert)  Talks / Presentations to various forums  Contributions to Internal Projects (Look for Core Frameworks)  Conference Paper  Blogs / Articles / Technology Write-ups  Volunteer in Various Events (College Events, Coding Fests…)  Training (for subject matter experts)  Get Connected to Competency Center Leaders and Contribute  Proposals (For senior technical folks)  Establish your Identify as Technical Expert through Technical contributions

12 Thank You !!