Profiles

XenSummit Speaker Profiles

Ian Pratt Citrix Systems, Inc

Ian Pratt is the chief architect of the Xen project, and chairman of xen.org. He has played a key role in both the architecture of Xen and formation of industry partnerships that led to the emergence of Xen as the leading open source virtualization technology. Ian was a member of faculty at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he led the Systems Research Group for over 7 years. He was a founder of XenSource, and is now VP for Advanced Products at Citrix.

Hitoshi Matsumoto Fujitsu 松本一志

He had worked on storage management for ten years, and 富士通入社以来メインフレームのOS開発に従事し、その mainframe operationg system for ten years. 後ストレージおよびストレージの管理環境の開発をして きました。2006年より、サーバの仮想化、特にXenとそ He has worked on virtualization since 2006. He is の関連製品の開発をしています。現在は、Xenを初めとす interested in a architecture of Xen and other hypervisor. る仮想化技術全般、特にアーキテクチャに関心がありま す。今回のSummitではホストとしての裏方も担当してい ます。

1 Andrew Warfield Department of Computer Science, UBC (Citrix Systems, Inc)

Andrew Warfield is a Technical Director at Citrix Systems, and is responsible for the storage architecture for Citrix’s XenServer products. He also oversees emerging virtualization technologies relating to high-availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security. He leads a small advanced development group based in Vancouver, Canada. Andrew is concurrently an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. At UBC he co-supervises a group of fantastic graduate students and works on novel approaches to building stable and secure computer systems.

In addition to penning short autobiographies, Andrew enjoys running, cooking, vintage British automobiles, and spending time with his one-year-old son Ryan. Most recently, he and Ryan have been attempting to experimentally determine the answer to the age old question: “How many prunes are too many prunes?”

Yoshiaki Tamura NTT Lab.

Yoshi Tamura joined NTT in 2005. His areas of interest are Operating Systems, Virtualization and Fault-tolerant systems. Yoshi holds a MS in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University.

Iustin Pop Google, Switzerland

Iustin Pop is a system administrator for Google Switzerland. He has worked in the virtualization group for the internal systems, mainly on the software and opensource efforts, for more than two years. 2 Ying Song Chinese Academy of Sciences

Miss Ying Song is a Ph.D Student in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. With main research interests in computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, operating system and virtualization technology, her work thus far has covered topics such as: performance modeling, capacity flowing, green model. She has worked on several research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High-Tech Research and Development Program (863) of China, China’s National Basic Research and Development 973 Program, etc. She has published 7 papers from 2004 to 2008, including 1 paper indexed by SCI & 4 papers indexed by EI. Some of these papers are in major conferences such as HiPC2008.

Hiromichi Itoh Virtualtech Japan Inc.

(English Bio)

Gosuke Miyashihta paperboy&co.

Gosuke Miyashita is a technical manager of paperboy&co.

He is working on introducing Xen to the development and production environment in his company.He is looking for the way to manage Xen domains across hundreds of servers easily. 3 Shinetsu Isawa ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. 井澤信越

Shinetsu Isawa 伊藤忠テクノソリューション株式会社 Technical consultant プラットフォーム推進部 Linux/OSS技術課 テクニカル Platform Products Promotion & Engineering Department コンサルタント IT Engineering Division ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation 現在：Xen,JRuby(on Rails）などの技術を検証し、社内 Kasumigaseki Bldg., 3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, SEへの技術指導を行っている。 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-6080 Japan http://www.ctc-g.co.jp/en/ XenAPIマニュアルを日本語に翻訳

Yasushi Hiratani Citrix Systems, Japan 平谷 靖志

Yasushi Hiratani is Systems Engineering manager in 平谷靖志はシトリックス・システムズ・ジャパン（株） Server virtualization sales at Citrix Systems Japan K.K. He のサーバー バーチャリゼーション営業のSEマネージャー joined Citrix in 2007, before joining Citrix he worked for です。シトリックス・システムズには2007年に加わり、 VMware Japan as a SE manager for almost 4 years. He has その前に約4年間ヴイエムウェア株式会社でSE マネージ experience of virtualization more than 4 years. ャをしていました。仮想化に関する経験は4年以上になり ます。

Toru Hayashi Oracle Japan

Senior Director Linux & Virtualization Business Development & Product Management Oracle Corporation Japan

4 Satoshi Watanabe Marathon Technologies Corp.

After a number of years with a large computer 国内コンピュータメーカー勤務を経て、2001年米国マラ manufacturer in Japan, Satoshi joined Marathon ソンテクノロジーズに入社。everRunをはじめとするフォ Technologies Corporation in 2001. He has been working ールトトレラント製品群の研究・開発に携わる。現在は as a member of the development team for the fault- 現行製品の強化とともに、次世代製品の研究・開発を担 tolerance product families, such as everRun, the most 当。 recent outcome form the team. He is now responsible for both enhancement of existing products and R&D of the next generation.

Toshiki Iida SuSE Linux (Novell)

(English Bio)

Isaku Yamahata VA Linux Systems Japan 山幡 為佐久

Isaku Yamahata is a Software engineer for VA Linux 山幡 為佐久はVA Linux Systems Japan株式会社のソフト software Japan K.K. Xen/IA64 maintainer. He has worked ウェアエンジニアです. for Xen, mainly Xen/IA64 port, for more than three years. 3年以上Xen/IA64を中心にXenの開発に関わり,Xen/IA64の メンテナーを勤めています.

5 Naoki Nishiguchi Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. 西口直樹

Naoki Nishiguchi is a software engineer for Fujitsu 西口直樹は、（株）富士通研究所の研究員です。1993年 Laboratories Limited. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories in に入社し、以来、ホーム サーバやセキュリティ(TCG)な 1993. Since then, he has been engaged in fields of the どの分野に従事してきました。2007年より、仮想 化に従 home server, security(TCG) and so on. He has worked on 事しています。現在は、クライアント・ハイパーバイザ virtualization since 2007. He is interested in a scheduler in としてのXenハイ パーバイザにおけるスケジューラに関 the Xen hypervisor as a client-hypervisor. 心があります。

Stephen Madden Virtual Iron

Technical Director APJ Region, Virtual Iron Software Inc.

Stephen Madden has over 15 years practical experience in Information Technology covering various sectors having predominately worked for US based companies and supporting operations in the APJ region from the USA and Australia. For the last several years Stephen has specialized in the field of Virtualization and assisted such companies as Softricity (acquired by Microsoft), Ardence (acquired by Citrix), Trigence and Virtual Iron. Stephen is based in Melbourne Australia and operates across the APJ Region to support business partners and the many installations in the region.

Koichi Onoue University of Tokyo 尾上 浩一

Koichi Onoue is a Ph.D student in computer science at 東京大学 情報理工学系研究科 コンピュータ科学専 攻 the University of Tokyo. His current research interests are 博士課程 在学中．現在の主な研究分野はコンピュータセ computer security, virtual machine technologies, operating キュリティ，仮想マシン技術，オペレーティングシステ systems. ム．

6 Takahiro Shinagawa University of Tsukuba

Takahiro Shinagawa is an assistant professor in University of Tsukuba since April 2007. His research interests include system software and security. He is the chief architect of the Secure VM project initiated by NISC (National Information Security Center) and mainly executed by University of Tsukuba.

Sang-bum Suh Samsung

Sang-bum Suh received B.Sc. degree from Inha University in Korea, M.E. degree from Yonsei University in Korea,and Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University in United Kingdom, respectively. He is a principal engineer and leads virtualization projects for client computing systems at SW Laboratories in Samsung Electronics, Korea. He conducted systems R&D ranging from OS to application software for PC and MPEG-2 CATV/VoD set-top box in Daewoo Telecom, Korea. His research interests include virtualization, embedded system architecture, and QoS for wireless transmission of multimedia.

Sasaki Takayuki NEC Corp.

Takayuki Sasaki is a researcher of NEC Common Platform NEC共通基盤ソフトウェア研究所に所属。2006年にNECに Software Research Laboratories. He joined NEC in 2006, 入社し、仮想化を用いたアクセス制御機構の研究開発に and has worked on access control mechanism using 従事。 virtualization.

7 Kenji Kono Keio University

Kenji Kono received the B.Sc. degree in 1993, M.Sc. degree in 1995, and Ph.D. degree in 2000, all in computer science from the University of Tokyo. He is an associate professor of the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University. His research interests include operating systems, system software, and Internet security. He is a member of the IEEE/CS, ACM and USENIX.

Hiroshi Yamada was born in 1981. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from the University of Electro- communications in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems at Keio University, since 2006. His research interests include virtual ma- chine technology, operating systems, and system software. He is a member of IPSJ, ACM, USENIX and IEEE/CS.

Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan 西門 宝曼 (サイモン・ホーマン)

My name is Simon Horman, though most people call me オーストラリア,シドニー在住.VA Linux Systems Japan Horms. I am from Sydney, Australia where I also live. I 勤務. オープンソースソフトウェア/フリーソフトウェア work for VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., which has its office で始めはシステム管理者として, その後プログラマとし in Tokyo. て経験を積んできました. より良い技術をもたらすもの と考えているのでフリーソフトウェア/ オープンソース For most of my professional career I have worked with ソフトウェアを支持しています. Open Source and Free Software, initially as a system administrator, and then as a programmer. I work with free 興味の対象は特にネットワーク及びHAで,最近は仮想化 and open source software because I believe that it breaks にも興味があります. 主なXenへの貢献はLinux kexecを down barriers to people accessing technology, and makes x86, ia64のXen及びdom0にポート した事です.現在の関 better technology by allowing any interested party to audit 心はXen環境下でネットワーク帯域を公平に 共有する方 or improve the code. I am keenly intereted in networking, 法です. as I think the way that this brings people together is really interesting. I am also interested in high availability and more recently virtualisation.

My main contribution to Xen to date was the port of kexec from Linux to the hypervisor and dom0 for x86 and ia64. My current focus for development in Xen is looking at how network resource isolation might be done, in particular methods of providing fair access to network bandwidth. 8 Hirokazu Takahashi 高橋浩和

Hirokazu Takahashi worked for many years as an オペレーティングシステムの設計者として,交換機,宇宙 operating system designer, developing several operating ロケット systems for various purposes, including telephone exchanges and space rockets. He is currently working on などの開発に関わる.現在はXen及びLinuxカーネルに取り Xen and the Linux kernel. 組んでいる.

Leonid Grossman Neterion

Leonid has over 20 years of experience in networking software development and is one of the founders of Neterion, Inc., formerly S2io, Inc. He has worked for the last 16 years in Silicon Valley for Advanced Micro Devices, Alteon WebSystems, and Nortel Networks. Prior to joining Neterion, as a software engineering manager with Alteon and Nortel, Leonid was responsible for software development for high speed server and storage I/O products. Leonid holds 7 US software patents with additional applications pending. He has an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Petroleum University, an M.Sc in Computer Science from Moscow University of Physics, and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Yuji Shimada NEC System Technologies, Ltd.

Yuji Shimada has worked on virtualization study at 2007年より、NECの仮想化の研究開発に従事。興味分野は NEC since 2007. He is interested in Operating System, オペレーティング・シ ステム、仮想化技術、プラットフ Virtualization Technologies, and Platform. ォーム。

His base as an engineer was built up at Kobe City College 神戸市立工業高等専門学校、神戸大学でエンジニアとし of Technology and Kobe University. ての基礎を築いた。

9 Noboru Iwamatsu Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. 岩松 昇

Noboru Iwamatsu is a researcher of Fujitsu Laboratories. 岩松昇は、富士通研究所の研究員です。 He joined Fujitsu Laboratories in 2001, and has worked on linux-based home network system over 5 years. Now, his 2001年に富士通研究所に入社し、Linuxベースのホームネ primary research interest is client-side virtualization, and ットワークシステムについて、5年以上仕事をしてきまし focuses on using client-side devices (e.g USB) on Xen. た。 現在の主な研究対象はクライアント仮想化で、特にXen上 でクライアント向けのデバイス(USBなど)を動かすことに 注力しています。

Yosuke Iwamatsu NEC Corp.

Yosuke Iwamatsu is a software engineer at NEC 2006年にNECに入社し、オペレーティングシステムおよび Corporation. 仮想化技術の分野に従事。

He joined NEC in 2006, where he got engaged in the 2007年からXenプロジェクトに参加し、主にPCIパススル fields of operating system and virtulization technology. ーおよびXen管理APIに注力。 He has been working on Xen project since 2007, mainly forcusing on PCI pass-through and Xen management API. 東京大学新領域創成科学研究科卒、修士(科学)。

He has an M.S. degree in Frontier Science from the University of Tokyo.

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