Marten Mickos, CEO at Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. and Simon Crosby, CTO at Bromium, Inc. will keynote at Cloud Fair 2012.
As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a small start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After being acquired by Sun Microsystems, Mickos served as Senior Vice President of Sun’s Database Group.
Mickos has held CEO and senior executive positions for multiple companies and has a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology.
Simon Crosby, CTO at Bromium, Inc. recently closed a $9.2 million series A round of funding with Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Founded by Gaurav Banga, Simon Crosby, and Ian Pratt, Bromium is focused on the delivery of infrastructure solutions that permit enterprises to safely embrace two major trends in IT: consumerization and cloud computing.
Simon was formerly CTO for Data Center & Cloud, at Citrix Systems, and was founder and CTO of XenSource, later acquired by Citrix. He was also the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.
In other roles, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He was also a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems.
Well known in the Cloud Community for his technical expertise, Simon is the author of over 35 research papers and holds patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance.
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