Edouard Bugnion

Edouard (Ed) Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] 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.

After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems, and acquired by them in April 2008.[4] Bugnion became Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.[5] He promotes Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appears in advertisements.[6]. He resigned from Cisco in 2011, and has resumed his PhD program of study at Stanford University.

Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Edouard Bugnion". Personal student web page. Stanford University. http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~bugnion/. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  2. ^ "VMware Leadership". Archived from the original on November 29, 2004. http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  3. ^ "NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes". Government Computer News. September 17, 2003. http://www.gcn.com/print/22_28/23568-1.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems". News release (Cisco systems). April 8, 2008. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/prod_040808b.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  5. ^ Charles Waltner (March 16, 2009). "The Evolution of Data Center 3.0". News release (Cisco systems). http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/hd_031609.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  6. ^ Dante Malagrino interview of Ed Bugnion (April 8, 2008). "Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization". Promotional video by Cisco. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFRjWSKPvI. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
  7. ^ Edouard Bugnion; Scott Devine; Kinshuk Govil; Mendel Rosenblum (November 1997). "Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 15 (4). doi:10.1145/265924.265930. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/disco.pdf. Retrieved November 13, 2011.