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| Our success has shown that our service portfolio in the SNC segment is the best of any technology consulting firm anywhere in the world. Our expertise spans traditional SNC domains with well-developed capabilities in both theory and practice. We continually invest in education and bleeding-edge training in-house and at industry and university supported events, to keep our staff at the forefront of this field. Our experts regularly give invited talks at international industry and university forums. |
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| Some of our domain expertise areas |
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| Storage Technology Domains |
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SCSI and iSCSI |
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IP SAN and Fiber Channel |
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SAN, NAS and other proprietary technologies |
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SAS, SATA based products |
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Distributed-systems and networking |
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Storage Network Management |
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Wide variety of OS experience including Windows, Mac and several Linux flavors. |
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| Networking Technology Domains |
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GSM, GPRS, CDMA, EDGE, WAP, I-MODE |
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Blue tooth, WLAN (802.11b), Home RF, IrDA |
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TCP/IP protocol suite (FTP, SMTP, TELNET, TFTP, NFS, SNMP, TCP, UDP, ARP, IPV6, IPV4, ICMP, NDIS Specifications) |
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Distributed system protocols and file systems |
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QOS Mechanisms, RSVP, PPPoE Stack for ADSL/DSL Modems |
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MPEG Streaming with RTP Protocol |
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Router Protocols Implementation |
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H.323/MGCP/SIP, POP3/IMAP4, NNTP, RTSP, DHCP, RADIUS, Net-Flow, 802.1Q. |
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| Systems and Product Engineering |
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Computer system product engineering |
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Storage system product engineering and integration |
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RAID and disk management software and firmware |
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Networking systems and software |
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Monitoring systems (IPMI, I2C etc.) |
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Management systems (clustering software etc.) |
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Storage subsystem engineering |
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E.g. HBA, storage controllers, expanders etc. |
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Porting of operating system and associated software |
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Porting of software across hardware platforms. |
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| System Testing, Performance and Scalability Engineering |
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Test automation and Frameworks |
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Functional testing |
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Interoperability test |
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Performance testing |
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Throughput & latency measurement and engineering |
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Scalability (node and cluster level) study |
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Simulation of systems |
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Certification testing such as Novell YES, Windows WHCL, etc |
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| Storage & Networking Standards:
SMI-S standards
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Expertise in developing SMI-S providers and clients |
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Developed WBEM Protocol Tester for SMI-Lab |
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Experience in developing products based on CIM and WBEM |
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Actively involved and working with the companies in the DMTF and SNIA in developing standards |
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| New Technology Initiatives and
Centers of Excellence (CoEs) within SNC
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Storage Training CoE |
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Linux CoE |
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Security Engineering |
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Distributed Clustering |
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IP SAN technologies |
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Compression technology for storage system design |
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Verification & Validation CoE |
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Load balancing and management software |
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Automated backup and recovery. |
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| Inhouse Training at SNC CoE
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| We are proud to have the industry's strongest inhouse training program for new college hires, besides offering refresher courses in the following areas: |
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Data Structure and Algorithms |
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Advanced Networking Protocols and Distributed Systems |
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Low-level software integration (HBA etc) |
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Linux and Windows skills |
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Several other systems and networking courses in collaboration with our industry and university partners. |
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Industry Leadership: Alliances with Standards Bodies
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| We have forged strong alliances with industry standards bodies like SNIA and DMTF that helps us keep apprised of leading edge technology changes. Some examples of our commitment to technology leadership include: |
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Development of the WBEM protocol tester for SNIA that allowed the standards body to advance the state-of-the-art in the rapidly evolving field of SMI-S standards. |
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Active involvement of Patni in several initiatives including "iSCSI Direct" where our Vice President - Sanjay Salunkhe is group chairman |
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| Thought Leadership & Memberships
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Tutorial on "Standards based product design" at SNW (Storage Networking World) - October 2006 by Rajat Mathur & Hope Hines, Solutions Architects at Patni |
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Keynote Talk at the IIT Techfest 2006 on: "Product design at the bleeding edge" by Rajat Mathur, Solutions Architect at Patni. |
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Several of our senior consultants and architects are members of IEEE, ACM and some have contributed to research at universities and industries, in areas of systems and software. |
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