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Christos Karamanolis

VMware Fellow

Christos is a VMware Fellow. He is responsible for the company’s technical strategy for storage and data infrastructure. He was one of the original vSAN architects and served as the CTO of the Storage and Availability Business Unit. Christos has over 30 years of research and development experience in distributed systems, fault tolerance, storage, and storage management. He has co-authored more than 20 research papers and over 50 granted patents. He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing from Imperial College.

Author's Posts

Strategic Advisor

Data and the Epicenter of Digital Transformation

Data is at the core of everything that VMware customers do. Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, and their success is increasingly determined...

Christos Karamanolis, Marc Fleischmann, Michael Gandy
April 12, 2023
Technologies

Data Infrastructure for Modern Applications

Christos Karamanolis
August 23, 2022
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The Future of...

VMware Virtual SAN: The Software-Defined Storage Platform of the Future

Christos Karamanolis
September 18, 2015
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The Future of...

VMware and the Future of Storage and Availability

Christos Karamanolis
July 15, 2015
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Uncategorized

On the Balkanization of Data Storage

Christos Karamanolis
January 5, 2015
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Uncategorized

2014 Prediction: The Democratization of Storage Management

Christos Karamanolis
December 17, 2013
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Uncategorized

2013 predictions: The year of software-defined storage?

Christos Karamanolis
December 18, 2012
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Uncategorized

A Preview of Distributed Storage

Christos Karamanolis
September 7, 2012