Bassam Tabbara is the CTO of Quantum Corporation, a world-class leader in storage. He is spearheading several storage projects including Rook (http://rook.io). Prior to Quantum, Bassam was the CTO and co-founder of Symform, a P2P storage startup acquired by Quantum. Prior to that he was at Microsoft where he lead a number of key initiatives as part of Microsoft Research, Azure, Windows Server, and Visual Studio.