About me
Senior Software Engineer
Research lab: Almaden Research Center
Me: I completed B.E.(Computer Science & Engineering) from Siddhartha Institute Of Technology, M.S.(Computer Science) from Illinois Institute Of Technology. Joined IBM in 1998. Currently working as Senior Software Engineer in Autonomic Storage Management team of the Storage Systems Research Group at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA.
My research interests:Storage Systems, Autonomic Integrated Systems (Server, Network and Storage) Management, High Performance Computing (HPC) Management, Disaster Recovery, SAN Simulation, Machine Learning and Services Research.
Patent Applications
- [GRANTED] System and method for automatically and dynamically optimizing application data resources to meet business objectives
- [GRANTED] Systems and methods for Storage Area Network design
- [PUBLISHED] Policy based resource management of legacy data
- [PUBLISHED] System and method for generating a multi-plan for multi-layer Storage Area Network
- [PUBLISHED] Validation of Module Interoperability
- [PUBLISHED] METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING BEST PRACTICES FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORKED SYSTEM
- [PUBLISHED] APPLICATION-REQUIREMENT BASED CONFIGURATION DESIGNER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Publications
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CASPER: Cluster Aware Storage Resource
Provisioning in a Data Center - Sandip Agarwala, Ramani Routray
12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS 2010, Osaka, Japan - April 2010 -
CIMDIFF: Advanced Difference Tracking Tool for CIM Compliant Devices - Ramani Routray, Shripad Nadgowda
23rd Large Installation System Administration ConferenceUSENIX LISA 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - November 2009 -
DiaDS: A Problem Diagnosis Tool for Databases and Storage Area Networks - Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Babu, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh
Demonstration Track of 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases VLDB 2009, France - August 2009 - ParaDisE: Parallel Discovery Engine for Enterprise Datacenters - Sandip Agarwala, Luis Bathen, Divyesh Jadav, Ramani Routray 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications(ICAC 2009), Barcelona, Spain - June 2009
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Building End-to-End Management Analytics for Enterprise Data Centers - Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, Ramani Routray, Chung-hao Tan, Sandeep Gopisetty
IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management IM 2009, NY, USA. -
Why Did My Query Slow Down? - Nedyalko Borisov, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh
Fourth biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research CIDR 2009, Asilomar, CA, USA - Jan. 2009 - DiaDS: Addressing the "my-problem-or-yours” syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis - Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies USENIX FAST 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA - Feb. 2009 - SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism - Akshat Verma, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ramani Routray, Rohit Jain
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies USENIX FAST 2008, San Jose, CA, USA - Feb. 2008 - ChargeView: An Integrated Tool for Implementing Chargeback in IT Systems - Sandip Agarwala, Ramani Routray, Sandeep Uttamchandani
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008, Bahia, Brazil - April 2008 -
Evolution of storage management: Transforming raw data into information
IBM Journal Of Research and Development July/September 2008 -
Automated planners for storage provisioning and disaster recovery
IBM Journal Of Research and Development July/September 2008 -
SANTria: A Tool for Managed System Configuration Problem Triage - Sandeep Gopisetty, Divyesh Jadav, Ramani Routray.
Academy Of Technology 6th Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance and Diagnosis Conference [May 2008, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York] - iSAN: Storage Area Network Management Modeling Simulation - Ramani Routray, Sandeep Gopisetty, Pallavi Galgali, Amit Modi, Shripad Nadgowda
IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage NAS 2007, Guilin , China, July 2007 - BRAMHA : Planning Tool for Providing Storage Management as a Service - Sandeep Uttamchandani, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ramani Routray, Li Yin, Aameek Singh, Benji Yolken
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - July 2007 - SPIKE : Best practice generation for storage area networks - - Prasenjit Sarkar, Ramani Routray, Eric Butler, Kaladhar Voruganti, Chung-hao Tan, Kiyoung Yang
USENIX Second Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML07), Cambridge, MA, USA. April, 2007. - Agar: A Proactive and Reactive Data Center Configuration Change Analyzer - Sandeep Gopisetty, Divyesh Jadav, Ramani Routray.
Academy Of Technology 5th Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance and Diagnosis Conference [April 2007, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York] - Pro-active and Re-active Best Practices Based SAN Configuration Management - Dakshi Agrawal, Eric Butler, Sandeep Gopisetty, Sudhir Koka, Kangwon Lee, Ramani Routray, Gauri Shah, Kaladhar Voruganti
Academy of Technology Best Practices Conference: Patterns for operational efficiency in distributed environments [May. 9-11, 2006, DaimlerChrysler and IBM Development Lab, Boeblingen, Germany] - Automatically generating best practices for configuring storage area networks based on the analysis of configuration errors - Eric Butler, Roberto Pineiro, Ramani Routray, Prasenjit Sarkar, Chung-Hao Tan, Kaladhar Voruganti
Academy of Technology Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance and Diagnosis Conference IV [Apr. 25-26, 2006, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York] - Enterprise IT Environment Simulation and Modeling - Ramani Routray, Pallavi Galgali, Amit S. Modi. - IBM Centers for Advanced Studies : CASCON 2006, IBM Toronto, Canada.
- Atlantis: A Best Practices Based Storage Disaster Recovery Planner - Rohit Jain, Tushar Mohan, Roberto Pineiro, Ramani Routray, Gauri Shah, Aameek Singh, Akshat Verma, Kaladhar Voruganti
Academy of Technology High Availability Best Practices conference IV [Oct. 5-7, 2005, IBM Toronto Lab, Toronto, Canada] - SMaestro: Performance Aware Storage Infra-Structure Planner - Dakshi Agrawal, Stefan Jaquet, Madhukar Korupolu, Kang-won Lee, Kostas Magoutis, Ramani Routray, Gauri Shah, Gopalan Sivathanu, Brian Smith, Chung-Hao Tan, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Norbert Vogl, Kaladhar Voruganti, Li Yin, Omer Zaki
Academy Of Technology Performance Engineering Best Practices Topical Conference VI [Oct. 3-5, 2005, IBM Toronto Lab, Toronto, Canada] - SANFS Maestro: Resource Planning for Enterprise Storage Area Network (
SAN) File Systems - Aameek Singh,Kaladhar Voruganti, Sandeep Gopisetty, Aki Fleshler, Ramani Routray, Chung-hao Tan
International Conference on e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing [EEE'05 , June 2005, Las Vegas, USA] (ISBN: 1-932415-76-9) Presentation Slides - LinkIntegrity+ : A Web Asset Integrity Solution - Nagraj Alur, Ramani Ranjan Routray
International Conference of Internet Computing [IC'01 , June 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA]. (Vol. II, ISBN: 1-892512-83-1) - LinkIntegrity+ : Proactive Avoidance of "404-Not Found" Error in an intranet- Nagraj Alur, Ramani Routray - IBM Centers for Advanced Studies CASCON 2000, IBM Toronto, Canada
- IBM Redbook [The XML Files: Using XML and XSL with IBM WebSphere] - Luis Ennser, Christophe Chuvan, Paul Fremantle, Ramani Routray, Jouko Ruuskanen (ISBN: 0-73841-581-2)
Product Impact
I love to transform ideas into working solutions(solve problems, propose and work with ideas, collaborate, write code and build systems). I worked on the following products and prototypes.
Products
- Open Source Eclipse Aperi Storage Network Simulator Committer
- Policy Framework, Configuration Analysis and Best Practice Evalutaion in IBM TPC (Total Storage Productivity Center) 3.3
- Uniform SMI-S compliant Disk API for IBM and non-IBM Storage Subsystems in IBM TPC (Total Storage Productivity Center) 3.1
- Uniform Disk configuration API for Storage Subsystems in IBM MDM (Multi Device Manager - TPC for Disk)
- SMI-S transformation of ITSANM (IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager - TPC for Fabric).
- FTP(File Transfer Protocol) Bean Suite - available at IBM alphaWorks Emerging Technologies
Prototypes
- High Performance Computing (HPC) Management, IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Management
- Integrated Disaster Recovery Planner, Resiliency Orchestrator
- SMaestro : Integrated SAN (Storage Area Network) Planner
- Autonomic Application Data Recovery
- LinkIntegrity+ : Web Asset Integrity Solution
Collaboration
Awards
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) for contributions to IBM TPC (TotalStorage Productivity Center)3.3 - 2008
- IBM Bravo Award for publication effort - 2007
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) for contributions to IBM TPC (TotalStorage Productivity Center)3.1 - 2006
- Research Division Award (RDA) for work on IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager (ITSANM - TPC for Fabric) - 2004
- IBM Autonomic Computing Special Patent Award for patent on autonomic data recovery - 2002
- JBAW(Java Beans Around The World) Award for work on FTP bean suite on IBM alphaWorks Emerging Technologies - 1998
LEAP Leadership Development Program - 2008
Short Talk at EclipseCon 2008 on "Storage Area Network(SAN) Simulator"
Personal
I am from Cuttack, Orissa, India.
Last updated 10 Nov 2009