Larry Aszmann
Chief Technology Officer and Founder
XIOtech

Leading the development of Compellent's storage architecture, Larry provides 36 years of continual computer industry innovation. With past assignments as a software engineer, system architect, manager, director, vice president, and CTO, Larry's depth of experience spans mainframes through today's open-systems with a consistent emphasis on storage systems.

As the co-founder and chief technology officer of XIOtech Corporation, Larry developed the storage virtualization architecture and the underlying software that formed the cornerstone of the industry's first centralized, virtualized SAN. Prior to XIOtech, Larry was the director of intelligent I/O subsystems at Tricord Systems, chief software architect at Star Technologies, and held various storage-related technology positions with Technalysis Corporation and Control Data Corporation.

Larry has found ways to overcome the limitations of past storage architectures by making the most of standardized, available technologies, and enabling key functionality through software innovation.