Sohrab Modi

Who is Sohrab Modi?

Sohrab has been with Sun Microsystems for more than 12 years. He is

a Vice President reporting to the CTO, and is currently exploring new

areas of possibilities for Sun's business and technology needs. In this

capacity he is looking into the impact that multicore CPU's and the

Solaris environment can have in creating a disruptive presence in the

networking space.

In his previous role as Vice President of N1 Grid Systems Sohrab was

responsible for building products, technology and strategy around

virtualization, systems management,business services management,

automation, grid and Sun cluster technologies for SUN. N1 Grid Systems

solutions are designed and built following a common set of

architectural principles, with the ultimate goal of "managing N

computers as 1".

Previous to this, Sohrab has led the architecture and development of

Sun Microsystems high availability solutions, including the successful

delivery of multiple releases of Sun Cluster. He has also managed the

Application Availability Group and strengthened ISVs relationships,

while greatly expanding the number of agents supported by Sun Cluster.

Sohrab has held numerous other technical and managerial positions at

Sun.

Before joining Sun Microsystems, Sohrab held technical and management

positions at Novell Inc., driving numerous Networking and File Systems

projects.

Sohrab has also had a business in the manufacture of acrylic products.

Sohrab holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Physics.