Serge Shats

Serge Shats, PhD, has more than 25 years experience in system software development, storage virtualization and data protection. Previously, Serge joined SanDisk when the company acquired FlashSoft, where Serge was chief technology officer. Serge has more than 25 years’ software design and development experience storage management, virtualization and data protection. Serge was lead architect in Virsto Software that was acquired by VMware. Serge was CTO at Baccel where he was responsible for the company’s technical strategy including continuous data protection, on-disk backup and IO acceleration. Serge worked for seven years at VERITAS, developing enterprise-class SAN appliances, distributed software, fault tolerant systems and data protection solutions in the role of technical lead. Serge also worked at Quantum, designing technologies for hard drive performance acceleration and hard drive behavior simulation. Serge earned his PhD in Computer Science from Institute of Informatics Problems at the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia.