Edouard Bugnion
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Edouard Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
.
Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich
in 1994 and a master's degree from Stanford University
in 1996. He was one of the five founders of VMware
in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum
) and was the chief architect until 2004. He had been a Ph.D.
candidate in computer science
at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop
for the US National Security Agency
.
His primary research interests are in operating system
s and computer architecture
s, and he was a key member of the SimOS
and Disco virtual machine
research teams.
After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems
, and acquired by them in April 2008. Bugnion became Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. He promotes Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appears in advertisements.
Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
in 1994 and a master's degree from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1996. He was one of the five founders of VMware
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and one of the co-founders of VMware. Since 2008 he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark...
) and was the chief architect until 2004. He had been a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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candidate in computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop
NetTop
NetTop is an NSA project to run Multiple Single-Level systems with a Security-Enhanced Linux host running VMware with Windows as a guest operating system.NetTop has .-External links:****...
for the US National Security Agency
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
.
His primary research interests are in operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s and computer architecture
Computer architecture
In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems....
s, and he was a key member of the SimOS
SimOS
SimOS was a full system simulator, developed in the Stanford University in the late nineties in the research group of Mendel Rosenblum. It was enabled to run IRIX 5.3 on MIPS, and Unix variants on Alpha...
and Disco virtual machine
Virtual machine
A virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...
research teams.
After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
, and acquired by them in April 2008. Bugnion became Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. He promotes Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appears in advertisements.
Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.