Venkat Kirishnamurthyi is a Technical Leader with the Advanced Services DCN team at Cisco Systems. His areas of expertise are SAN design, migration, and storage replication for disaster recovery. He graduated from Bangalore University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Engineering. Since then he has worked as a Systems Administrator at Hughes Software Systems, India and as a Senior Systems Administrator and Senior Storage Administrator at Cisco Systems. Venkat has continued his storage expertise by authoring SAN migration guides for HPUX and Solaris hosts, both the MDS-9000 Family Cookbook for SAN-OS 1.x and MDS-9000 Family Cookbook for SAN-OS 2.x. He is a member of the team that authored the CCIE exam for Storage Networking.