BOSTON, MA -- February 2, 2006 – Onaro, Inc., the leader in Storage Service Management (SSM), today announced that Dr. Raphael Yahalom, chief scientist, customers-advocate, and co-founder, will speak on a panel entitled “Making ILM Work ‘Cost Effectively’ in the Enterprise” at the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Summit at the Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport in Irvine, CA on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 7:00 pm.
Regulatory compliance requirements and IT audit requirements increasingly focus on the controls of SAN storage infrastructure and present new important challenges to organizations. Dr. Yahalom’s presentation will describe these challenges and map them to the various regulatory compliance requirements. He will also introduce a new model which establishes the direct correspondence between attaining regulatory compliance benefits and business storage service benefits.
As Onaro’s Chief Scientist and Customers Advocate, Dr. Raphael Yahalom directs the long-term technological vision of the company to help drive future growth and competitive advantage. He works closely with Onaro’s customers on business-value measurements and reporting, and on industry thought-leadership activities. Dr. Yahalom combines expertise in both academic research and innovative applied business solutions. Prior to co-founding Onaro, Dr. Yahalom was a visiting faculty member at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in research in areas of information technologies, distributed systems, information security, electronic commerce and risk management. He also held invited visiting scientist appointments at AT&T Bell Labs, Siemens Research Labs, Karlsruhe University (Germany), Cambridge University (UK) and Cornell University. Dr. Yahalom has also worked with large financial organizations on formal analysis and design of operational business processes.
Dr. Yahalom obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University (UK) and a B.S. (cum laude) in EECS from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
