Mehdi Bathaee, Atmel, GM/Managing Director, Network Storage Products Business Unit

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Abstract

The storage industry has seen the proliferation of devices featuring larger capacity, higher performance, increased reliability, lower power consumption, and rapidly diminishing costs. The next great challenge is in securing the data encapsulated and transmitted by these devices. Storage systems have become increasingly independent of the devices they are attached to, bringing an end to the age of exclusive reliance on permanent storage in consumer electronics and desktop computing. Today’s consumer will leave their PC at home or at the office, but will carry their data and information with them. A platform is needed to work with existing technologies (HDD, DVD, solid state storage devices), and anticipate subsequent innovations. Today’s  SAN and NAS systems feature technologies that insure both safe data retention and transmission, yet a seamless, standard, and viable  solution has not been applied to common consumer electronics. Atmel’s new Secure-Storage technology allows highly secured consumer storage and network storage systems. This new product will enable secure storage and transmission of future copyrights, private information, medical, health care, financial and security information with highly dependable secured system to predict and prevent fraud and theft.

BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Mehdi Bathaee joined Atmel Corporation in 2003 through the acquisition of LDIC. He is currently General Manager / Managing Director of the new Network Storage Products Business Unit. Under his direction in 12 months his Business Unit has developed a number of System-On-Chip that will be introduced in 2004 for consumer electronic, Storage and Network market. 

Prior to joining Atmel, Mr. Bathaee was the President and CEO of LDIC for seven years. He raised over $22M in funding, managed marketing, architectural development, and a team of over 100 VLSI designers to develop a complete line of high performance mixed signal and digital products to meet the needs of the mass storage and networking industry. Prior to LDIC he was senior director of VLSI design at Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation, RCA - Laboratory, Rockwell International and NCR- VLSI Advance Development.

He has a career of technical achievement that includes three U.S. Patents and a number of additional patents pending. He holds a State of California University/College lifetime teaching credential and has taught VLSI design, logic and circuit design courses at Santa Clara University and other institutions and colleges. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from San Diego State University (SDSU).