Dr. Kalman Meth is an architect in the Cloud Platforms department at the IBM Haifa Research Labs (HRL). Kalman is one of the authors of the iSCSI protocol specification (RFCs 3720, 7143) and is active in various systems and storage related activities. He received his Masters and PhD degrees from Courant Institute at New York University, while specializing in numerical analysis and computational fluid dynamics. His interests include: operating systems, file systems, storage systems, distributed and parallel computing, real-time computing, and numerical analysis.