The document discusses network-aware data management for large-scale distributed applications. It provides an outline for a presentation on this topic, including discussing the performance of VSAN and VVOL storage in virtualized environments, the PetaShare distributed storage system and Stork data scheduler, data streaming in high-bandwidth networks, and several other related topics like network reservations and scheduling. The presenter's background and experience working on data transfer scheduling, distributed storage, and high-performance computing networks is also briefly summarized.