Alistair Veitch
Palo Alto
Biography
Alistair Veitch is director of the Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm. He and his team build platforms and services that create, host, manage and provide the next generation of storage and information sources and services for enterprise and user-controlled information.
A native of New Zealand, Dr. Veitch received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Waikato University
in New Zealand in 1989 and 1990 respectively. He earned a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1998.
Dr. Veitch has wide-ranging research interests in computer science, with a particular interest in storage systems, and has worked in areas as diverse as operating systems design, software engineering, storage systems management, distributed systems design and information management.
Dr. Veitch has received approximately 15 patents and authored more than 20 referred papers in top-tier conferences and journals. He recently co-authored a book, Storage, Data and Information Systems, with HP Labs colleagues.
Since joining HP Labs in 1998, he and HP Labs colleagues have done pioneering work in the areas of storage systems management and design, including the first demonstrations of completely self-managing storage systems. He was the lead architect for the Federated Array of Bricks project, which demonstrated that it was possible to build enterprise-class disk arrays from distributed, commodity components.
Prior to HP, Dr. Veitch worked in a variety of IT engineering and software development roles in both academic and commercial settings.
Research interests
Alistair has wide-ranging research interests in computer systems, with a particular interest in storage systems, and has worked in areas as diverse as operating systems design, software engineering, storage systems management, distributed systems design and information management.
Publications
More than 20
Co-author, Storage, Data and Information Systems (2008)
Patents
15 patents