Satyam is currently the co-founder and CTO of PernixData. Previously, he was VMware's Principal Engineer and Storage CTO where he spent 10 years delivering fundamental storage innovations in vSphere. He is most known for creating the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) that set a storage standard for server virtualization. He has authored 50+ patents, led industry-wide changes in storage systems and standards via VAAI, and has been a regular speaker at VMworld and other industry and academic forums. He received his Masters in CS from Stanford and a Bachelors in CS from BITS Pilani.