Simon Crosby
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.
