University Research
As part of its innovation strategy, NetApp
supports innovative research in the academic community. As part of
the CTO, the Advanced Technology Group is responsible for
maintaining many of these academic research relationships through
sponsorships, consortium memberships, and direct
collaborations.
University-Industry Consortiums
Through ATG, NetApp is currently a member
of the following university-industry consortiums:
NetApp Faculty Fellowship Program
The NetApp Advanced Technology Group (ATG)
has established the NetApp Faculty Fellowship (NFF) program to fund
innovative research on data storage and related topics. The goals
of this program are to encourage leading-edge research in storage
and data management and to foster relationships between academic
researchers and engineers and researchers at NetApp.
On an ongoing basis, ATG solicits funding
proposals from university faculty members. A proposal should
describe an innovative project the researcher wants to pursue over
the next one to three years. ATG researchers review these proposals
3-4 times a year and make funding recommendations based on the
potential effects of the proposed research and its synergy with
NetApp® core technology and business interests.
NetApp Faculty Fellowships are one-time
grants, typically covering a year of funding for a graduate student
working with the principal investigator on the proposed research.
Grants are not restricted to this format, however, and NetApp ATG
will consider proposals for different situations and durations.
Funded NFF proposals are assigned a sponsor
from ATG or elsewhere within NetApp. The sponsor tracks the
progress and results of the project and offers feedback to the
funded researcher(s). In some cases, the sponsor will be available
as an active collaborator on the project.
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To find out more about NetApp Faculty
Fellowships, send email to fellowships@netapp.com
NetApp Faculty Fellowship Awards
July 2011
- University of Toronto, Angela Demke Brown, "A Policy-based
Architecture for Scalable Storage Systems"
- University of California, Riverside, HarshaMadhyastha, "Storage
and Compute Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics
and SLOs"
- University of California, San Diego, George Porter,
"Incorporating Networked Storage within Highly Efficient
Data-intensive Computing"
- University of California, San Diego, Yuanyuan Zhou,
"Understanding and Detecting Misconfigurations"
April 2011
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Samuel Madden, "Workload
Aware Database Storage"
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau,
"Increasing the Intelligence of Cloud-storage Gateways"
- Virginia Tech, Ali Butt, "Studying the Impact of Storage System
Design on Hadoop Performance"
- Florida International University, Raju Rangaswami, "Trade-offs
in Flash (SSD) Based Storage Caching vs. Tiering"
November 2010
- Harvard University, Margo Seltzer, "Simulation Analysis of
Server-side Flash Cache"
- Brown University, Roberto Tamassia, "Efficient Integrity
Checking of Outsourced Storage"
September 2010
- Stony Brook University, Erez Zadok, "A Network Storage benefits
using FLASH Hardware with Indexing Workloads"
- Dortmund University of Technology, Ramin Yahyapour, "Automated
Workload Mapping and SLO Creation"
- Johns Hopkins University, Randal Burns, "Reducing Memory and
I/O Interference for Virtualized Systems and Cloud Computing"
July 2010
- University of California, San Diego, Yuanyuan Zhou, "Make
Software Easy-to-Diagnose via Systematic Logging Enhancement"
- College of William and Mary, Peter Kemper, "Workload Modeling
for Storage Systems and Networks with Markovian Arrival
Processes"
- Cornell University, Hakim Weatherspoon, "Toward Power-Lean
Cloud Storage: Beyond Power Proportionality"
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aditya Akella,
"High-Performance Flash-based Indexes for Content-Based
Systems"
- University of Toronto, Bianca Schroeder, "A unified framework
for managing storage system reliability"
December 2009
- Duke University, Jeff Chase, "Dynamic Feedback Control
for Elastic Cloud Storage"
- Harvard University, Margo Seltzer, "Nonhierarchical
Storage Systems"
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau,
"HaRD Systems"
July 2009
- Brown University, Roberto Tamassia, "Efficient
Integrity Checking of Outsourced Storage"
- Carnegie Mellon University, David Andersen, "FAWN
Project: IOps Without Watts: Low Power Cluster Architectures for
Seek-Bound Workloads"
Other Sponsored Research
ATG identifies and supports university
research projects outside of the NetApp Faculty Fellowship program.
This is often done to support research opportunities that lead to
nearer term benefits to the academic and business communities: for
example, stimulating interest in open source improvements,
developing a more robust body of knowledge, and so on. In general,
NetApp encourages the recipients of a NetApp sponsorship to provide
their research results to the larger community free of charge or
under liberal licensing agreements.
Active Sponsored Research
- Indian Institute of Science, K. Gopinath
- Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Sorav Bansal
- Indian Institute of Science, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
- Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Amab Bhattacharyya
Past Sponsored Research
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bart Miller, "Dynamic
Instrumentation for Monitoring and Testing Tools for
FreeBSD"
- University of California, San Diego, Yuanyuan Zhou,
"Understanding Software Quality Challenges Throughout Its
Lifecycle"
- Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Anirban Mahanti and
Amitabha Bagchi, "Characterizing Web 2.0 Workloads and
Their Impact on Storage Architectures"
- Johns Hopkins University, Randal Burns,
"Server-Directed Adaptive Data Destaging for
NFS"
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Samuel Madden and Daniel
Myers, "Flash Memory and Database System
Design"
- SUNY, Stony Brook, Erez Zadok, "Storage Performance
vs. Energy Consumption Tradeoffs"
- University of California-Santa Cruz, Ethan Miller,
"Efficiently Handling Errors in Nonvolatile
Memory"
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Yuanyuan Zhou,
"Intelligent Log Mining"
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Jason Flinn, "File
Server Utilization of Flash"
- University of Waterloo, Ken Salem, "RDBMS Storage
Optimizer"
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,
"SQCK"