Gary Aulfinger

Gary Aulfinger is the Chief Storage Architect and Chief Technology Officer for EVS Corporation. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering (’88) from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Master of Science (’93) from the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon.  Aulfinger spent eight of eleven years at Carnegie Mellon managing undergraduate computing and consulting services, as well as research facilities for the Information Networking Institute.  In this academic environment, Aulfinger developed a unique focus, blending technological innovation with an understanding of the business of managing IT.

In 1995, Aulfinger attracted the attention of FedEx and was recruited to Memphis, Tennessee. There during his twelve year tenure, he led FedEx’s distributed backup/recovery systems utilizing technologies such as split mirror backups, snapshots, replication, and backup to disk. Aulfinger oversaw a twenty-fold increase in backup data to nearly 3,000,000 GB.  He was a leader in high availability clustering of Unix systems and managed the team providing standards and support for Windows Server Operating Systems, Active Directory, and centralized job scheduling.

Aulfinger’s breadth of IT experience and vision for storage technology shape the direction of EVS Corporation’s technology and business leadership.  He leverages relationships with leaders in storage from EMC, Sun Microsystems, Asigra, and other storage innovators to provide EVS with a dynamic foundation for its services and a depth of understanding of the storage issues facing business today and in the future.