Edouard Bugnion

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Who is Edouard Bugnion?

Edouard "Ed" Bugnion is a Swiss software architect and businessman.

Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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 and was the chief architect until 2004. 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. 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. Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. He promotes Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appears in advertisements. He resigned from Cisco in 2011 and resumed his PhD program of study at Stanford University, which he graduated from in 2012.

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Education
  • Master of Science, Stanford University
    ( - 1996)
  • ETH Zurich
Employment
  • VMware

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on July 23, 2013

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