Cloud Computing Unleashing Innovation

About the Speaker:

Prasad Saripalli is currently the chief architect for IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise (www.ibm.com) Prior to joining IBM, Prasad Saripalli was the Vice President of Product Development at Runaware, an 11 year old Cloud vendor based out of Florida, US and with global data centers hosting SaaS for Fortune 500 to SMB customers worldwide.

Prasad's recent work included building innovative, integrated product architectures using virtualization and distributed systems as their foundation. In addition to building partnerships to ensure seamless, complete user experiences for cloud and virtualization customers in different verticals with unique needs, his goals were to enable the existing and legacy IT infrastructures to seamlessly and securely integrate with the new cloud applications. Recently, Prasad was the Principal GPM on Microsoft's Client Virtualization team which was responsible for shipping Virtual PC7 and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 and components of Hyper-V. Prior to that, he was a Dev Manager on the Citrix group which built Citrix Presentation Server (now known as Citrix XenApp). He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist with Battelle, world's largest R&D provider, building innovative software and technologies for oil, water, biomedical/health, energy and climate change applications in collaboration with major research institutions. Prasad has doctoral training separately in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Florida, and post-doctoral training from the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences (ICES), published more than 50 peer reviewed publications in international journals, and teaches courses in Virtualization and Visualization (Graphics), and advises researchers in Distributed Systems as a visiting faculty member at IIIT, Hyderabad, and earlier at IIT, Madras