Edouard Bugnion

Edouard Bugnion
Board member ofLogitech, Innosuisse, ICRC

Edouard "Ed" Bugnion is a Swiss computer science professor at EPFL and a co-founder of VMware.

Biography

Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[1]

Bugnion was one of the five founders of VMware in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum) and was the chief architect until 2004.[2] While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop for the US National Security Agency.[3]

After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems, and acquired by them in April 2008.[4] Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.[5] He promoted Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appeared in advertisements.[6] In 2014, he became adjunct professor at the School of Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland, where he is now a Full Professor. He was Vice President for Information Systems until he was appointed Vice President for Innovation and Impact starting 2025.[7][8]

Bugnion is also an angel investor in startup companies such as Cumulus Networks.[9]

He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Edouard Bugnion". Personal student web page. Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  2. ^ "VMware Leadership". Archived from the original on December 29, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  3. ^ "NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes". Government Computer News. September 17, 2003. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  4. ^ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems". News release. Cisco systems. April 8, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  5. ^ Charles Waltner (March 16, 2009). "The Evolution of Data Center 3.0". News release. Cisco systems. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  6. ^ Dante Malagrino interview of Ed Bugnion (April 8, 2008). "Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization". Promotional video by Cisco. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  7. ^ "Nominations of EPFL professors" (Press release). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  8. ^ "ETH Board appoints EPFL's new leadership team" (Press release). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  9. ^ "Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
  10. ^ ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13


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