Ian Pratt was the chief architect of the open-source Xen

Xen

Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently....

 project, and chairman of Xen.org. He was also the founder of XenSource, the company behind Xen project. After XenSource was acquired by Citrix, he became Vice President of Advanced Virtualization Products at this company, until leaving in 2011.

Before working full time at XenSource, Pratt was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

The Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students...

, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

. He was the leader of the Systems Research Group where he was also part of the xenoservers

Xenoservers

A XenoServer is a server that can safely execute foreign, potentially untrusted code.The XenoServer platform is a network of XenoServers meant to support distributed code execution services....

project.

External links

• Ian Pratt's former website at the University of Cambridge
• Interview with Brian Gammadge at Gartner.com, 2 May 2008