Ravi Chhabria has close to two decades of experience with distributed systems and clustering technology in development, deployment, sales support, marketing, and strategy. Ravi received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University (India), was post-graduate assistant at the National Center for Software Technology (NCSDCT) and Lecturer at the TS. Engineering College in Bombay (India). He has received his Master's Degree in Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Over the past 15 years Ravi has held a number of engineering and marketing roles at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. Most recently, at Sun, Ravi led teams responsible for product management and product marketing of SunSpectrum, Sun's multi-billion dollar service offerings for hardware, software and proactive, mission-critical service. While at Sun Ravi was responsible for technologies and products in the areas of High Availability, Systems Management, Resource Management, and virtualization and provisioning of grids. He led the introduction to market and growth of Sun's second generation cluster product line. Earlier at both SGI and Sun, Ravi played a role in the design and implementation of commercial high-availability cluster software.

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