Simon Crosby
CTO and Founder, XenSource
An industry evangelist for the Xen™ open source hypervisor, Simon Crosby is CTO of XenSource. In this position, he is responsible for XenEnterprise R&D, technology leadership and product management, and maintaining a close affiliation to the Xen project run by Ian Pratt, the founder of XenSource. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Before Intel, Simon founded CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, and held a variety of executive roles while there including president & CEO, chairman and CTO. Prior to CPlane, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. Simon is a frequent speaker on the topic of enterprise-grade virtualization with open source technologies, and has most recently been a presenter at such well-known industry events as LinuxWorld, Interop and the Server Blade Summit.
About Xen
The Xen™ hypervisor is the industry-standard open source infrastructure virtualization software created and maintained by the founders of XenSource, Inc., and developed collaboratively by 20 of the world’s most innovative data center solution vendors. Xen allows multiple virtual server instances to run concurrently on the same physical server, with near native performance and per-virtual server performance guarantees. The technology is being adopted world wide in enterprise datacenters to increase server utilization, support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of ownership.
About XenSource
XenSource, Inc. develops the XenServer™ product family based on the industry’s highest-performance virtualization technology, the open source Xen™ Hypervisor. The product family includes XenEnterprise™, the leading enterprise-grade multi-OS platform virtualization solution, XenServer™ for high performance Windows virtualization and XenExpress™, a free, production-ready product for developers and IT enthusiasts. Founded and run by the Xen development team, XenSource products allow enterprises to realize the TCO savings that result from server consolidation, increased utilization, and reduced complexity in the datacenter. For more information, visit http://www.xensource.com.
