Edouard Bugnion

Edouard (Ed) Bugnion is one of VMware's an original 5 founders Ed Bugnion was Chief Architect at VMware until 2004. He was also Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. His primary research interests are in operating systems and computer architectures, and he was a key member of the SimOS and Disco virtual machine research teams. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich and a master's degree from Stanford University. [1] Ed was crucial in developing the NSA's secure desktop inititive also know as NetTop. [2]

Ed is currently working at Cisco as VP/CTO, of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.

Post VMware and prior to working at Cisco he was chief technology officer at Nuova Systems a company he also co-founded. [3] Nuova was acquired by Cisco systems in April 2008. [4] Ed currently heads up the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit at Cisco which focuses on the Nexus product line. [5]

He has co-authored many papers on the subject of operating systems and virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 15(4), November 1997. C0-authors Scott Devine, Kinshuk Govil, and Mendel Rosenblum. [6]

References

# VMware Leadership - http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html
# NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes - http://www.gcn.com/print/22_28/23568-1.html
# Cisco Press Release - http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/le34/vmworld/2008/speakers.html
# Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems - http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/prod_040808b.html
# Interview with Ed Bugnion - Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFRjWSKPvI
# DISCO OS - “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors, - http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/disco.pdf