Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix. Previously, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. 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. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs. Less   View all posts

Tom Bishop is the Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software, Inc. Tom joined BMC in 2005 from VIEO, Inc., in Austin, Texas, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld magazine in 2004. While at VIEO, Tom was a pioneer in SOA. For more than 20 years, Tom has served in senior technology and strategy roles at leading organizations including UNIX International, Tandem Computers and CompuCare Management Systems. Tom was an early employee of Tivoli Systems and rose quickly through the organization, eventually being named Chief Technology Officer and General Manager for IBM Tivoli's Embedded Solutions business unit. A well-known technology innovator, Bishop holds nine patents and has been involved in industry standards organizations such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Symbiot, an Austin-based software startup, and Witness Systems, an Atlanta-based software company. Also, he serves on the technical advisory board for AlterPoint, based in Austin, TX, and Qlusters, based in Palo Alto, CA. Less   View all posts

Dr. Tim Marsland is a Sun Fellow, Vice President and CTO in the Software Organization at Sun Microsystems. In his 17 year career at Sun he has contributed to every Solaris release. His current interests include hardware and software virtualization technologies. Less   View all posts

Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, has over 20 years of enterprise engineering experience in UNIX and Linux technologies, including work on the first commercial release of the X Window System. Since joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Brian has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and clustering strategies. He now leads the Emerging Technologies group. Prior to joining Red Hat, Stevens served as CTO of Mission Critical Linux. Brian also spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, where he was involved with Tru64 OS and the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product. Less   View all posts