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My main research focus is at the moment on the design of distributed and parallel data management systems for the next generation data center and enterprise cluster hardware. For example, high-speed RDMA-capable networks such as InfiniBand FDR/EDR used to be a very expensive technology that was only deployed in high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. However, InfiniBand has recently become cost-competitive with Ethernet and is becoming an interesting alternative for future data centers and enterprise clusters. Our initial results of building an InfiniBand-optimized system called I-Store show that this trend towards high-speed networks enables a new bread of distributed data management systems which lead to major performance gains compared to existing systems for analytical but also transactional workloads.