Alex Vasilevsky is Co-Founder and CTO of Virtual Computer. Before that he was the founder and CTO of Virtual Iron Software, held senior engineering and management roles at Ucentric Systems, Omtool, Avid Technology, and Thinking Machines. He is an industry-recognized expert in virtualization, open source, parallel processing, video systems, and advanced optimizing compilers. Prior to Virtual Computer, he was founder and CTO of Virtual Iron Software. He has authored numerous papers and patents (6 granted and 16 pending) on datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization, and performance. Listed in The History of the Development of Parallel Computing, Alex is the winner of three IEEE Gordon Bell Awards for practical applications of parallel processing research. He has a BS in computer engineering from Syracuse University, and an MS in computer science from Boston University.
Virtualization is perhaps the sexiest word in the IT industry today. The benefits of virtualizing servers are widely recognized, and the market for server virtualization software is growing rapidly. This growth rate has caught the attention of many competitors from small startups to gi...Sep. 17, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,235
Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers as they become highly complex, expensive to build out, and difficult to reconfigure as needs change. In an effort to address these challenges, many IT professionals are turning to virtualization tec...
